Authored by Victoria Friedman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado said on March 1 that she will return to her country in the coming weeks.
Machado, 58, did not set a date for her return, but she said in a video posted to X that one of the objectives is to prepare for “a new and resounding electoral victory.” “I will return to Venezuela in a few weeks.
I want to do so, as do hundreds and thousands of Venezuelan exiles around the world,” she said.
“We will arrive to embrace one another, to work together to guarantee an orderly and sustainable transition to democracy.” Then-Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Adela Flores de Maduro, were captured in a U.S.
military operation on Jan.
3 and taken to the United States, where the pair face drug trafficking-related charges.
Both have denied the charges.
Delcy Rodríguez, who has been the interim leader of Venezuela since, said that Machado, who is under investigation in her home country, should have to “answer to Venezuela” for her support of U.S.
military action against Caracas.
Shortly after Maduro’s capture, U.S.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Venezuela must go through phases of stabilization, economic recovery, and then, finally, a transition of power.
Rubio has not indicated that elections could....
