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- The opposition returns to the streets in Venezuela after María Corina Machado’s return: ‘She’s coming to step on the accelerator’
The opposition returns to the streets in Venezuela after María Corina Machado’s return: ‘She’s coming to step on the accelerator’
It was a long and emotional day for thousands of Venezuelans who could not believe it when they heard on Sunday morning that the opposition leader María Corina Machado had returned to Venezuela. When her message started circulating on cellphones — “I am here. With you.” — thousands of supporters of Machado and opponents of Chavismo began pouring into the streets to follow her slow march to the capital, Caracas, in an epic demonstration of Venezuelans shedding the fear of repression that had been holding them back for so long.

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Machado returns to Venezuela after 10 months of exile

Venezuela's opposition leader Machado returns after months in exile

María Corina Machado returns to Venezuela
After nearly 10 months abroad, María Corina Machado, the anti-Chavista opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has returned to Venezuela. “I am here, with you,” the opposition figure wrote on social media on Sunday morning.

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