Venezuelan opposition leader María Machado returns after months in exile
She returned to press for a presidential election date and meet earthquake survivors and political prisoners, advisers said.
- After more than 10 months in exile, Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel laureate María Corina Machado returned to Venezuela on Sunday, entering a political landscape reshaped by the United States without her involvement.
- Machado attempted to re-enter Venezuela seven times over previous months without success, including failed efforts in June during earthquake relief and three denials in September while acting President Delcy Rodríguez attended the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
- Following President Nicolás Maduro's January ousting, the United States began steering Venezuela toward democratic transition through the acting government, though the process excluded Machado and opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia.
- In late August, President Donald Trump announced a U.S. agreement to take majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil reserves, which Machado questioned in a video statement as signed by an illegitimate regime.
- Trump claimed Machado 'does not have the support or the respect within the country' to lead, while the acting government has yet to announce a date for elections promised at the General Assembly.
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About ten months after her secret departure from Venezuela, Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado is said to have returned to her home country. "I'm here. With you," Machado wrote in online media. Opposition politician González also referred to this message.
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Nobel Peace Prize winner and popular Venezuelan political opposition figure Maria Corina Machado has returned from nearly a year in exile. She was greeted by thousands of cheering supporters in Caracas.
She won the Nobel Peace Prize last year and has returned to Venezuela after ten months.
Caracas. Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado returned to Venezuela yesterday after 10 months abroad and after assuring on several occasions that the government of Delcy Rodríguez prevented her from entering the country. Machado appeared surrounded by militants of his political organization Vente Venezuela, in the sanctuary of the Divine Pastora, in the central-western state of Lara.
He has tried to enter the country seven times since September, and now he finally succeeded. He previously said he would leave if there were elections.
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