Venezuelan opposition leader María Machado returns after months in exile
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has returned home to a fraught political landscape after over 10 months in exile.
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has returned home to a fraught political landscape after over 10 months in exile.
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- In January, a month after Machado left Venezuela to accept the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway, the US seized her opponent, President Nicolás Maduro.
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- As leader, and she was sworn in as interim president, afterwards signing an oil agreement with the US, the Trump administration then backed his deputy, Delcy Rodríguez.
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Her ally, former presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia, confirmed the news minutes afterwards, writing: "I am thrilled to announce to you that our leader, my dear María Corina, is on Venezuelan soil."
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