Maria Corina Machado Prepares To Return To A Free Venezuela
8- 3.01.2026, 16:41
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The opposition has signaled an imminent transition of power.
Venezuelan opposition figure Maria Corina Machado said in December that the days of Nicolas Maduro's regime are numbered. This came shortly after she was smuggled out of Venezuela - days before she received the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway, writes CNN.
Machado's current whereabouts are unknown, and her spokesperson declined to comment on the events of the past 24 hours. Nevertheless, she will be a key figure in any new political order if Maduro's regime collapses, especially now that the president has been detained and flown to the United States.
Machado is 58. She was born into a wealthy family and was first elected to the National Assembly in 2010. Once, during a session broadcast on national television, she got into a direct confrontation with Maduro's predecessor Ugo Chavez, telling him, "To expropriate is to steal."
The Norwegian Nobel Committee described her as "a courageous and dedicated champion of peace ... a woman who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid growing darkness."
In her Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Machado said that in 16 months of clandestine activity, the opposition had "created new networks of civil pressure and disciplined disobedience in preparation for Venezuela's orderly transition to democracy."
"I will once again stand on the Simon Bolivar Bridge, where I once wept among the thousands of people leaving the country, and welcome them back to the bright life that awaits us," Machado said.
"I will return to Venezuela, of that I have no doubt," she said in Oslo.
Machado has expressed support for opposition candidate Gonzalez in the 2024 elections and said last month that he had invited her to serve as vice president in a democratic government. She added that the "overwhelming majority" of the police and military will follow orders from the new administration once the political transition begins.
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