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Opposition leader María Machado returns to Venezuela

BBC News •
October 25, 2026 • 04:21 PM
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Machado had left the country just a month before the US government seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

Opposition leader María Machado returns to Venezuela

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has returned home to a fraught political landscape after over 10 months in exile.

"I am here. With you," Machado wrote on X on Sunday.

Her ally, former presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia, confirmed the news minutes later, writing: "I am thrilled to announce to you that our leader, my dear María Corina, is on Venezuelan soil."

In January, a month after Machado left Venezuela to accept the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway, the US seized her opponent, President Nicolás Maduro.

The Trump administration then backed his deputy, Delcy Rodríguez, as leader, and she was sworn in as interim president, later signing an oil deal with the US.

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