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Venezuelan opposition leader María Machado returns after months in exile
Machado says no election date has been set as she returns after nearly a year in exile and renews calls for a democratic vote.
- 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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María Corina Machado returned to Venezuela as announced, on Sunday, on social network X. Edmundo González confirmed it by that same route
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Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado has returned to her country, after a series of failed attempts to return and almost a year in exile. Machado announced her return in a post on the social network X, where she wrote: "I am here. With you." Machado had secretly left Venezuela in December 2025 to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Just a few weeks later, US forces captured the country's long-time leader, N…
It intended to lead the country towards democratic change.
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