After the outburst of enthusiasm that accompanied her return, María Corina Machado and her political circle have begun a “soft” reintegration into Venezuela. The opposition leader’s collaborators say it is a strategy designed to manage energy and time the next move. Machado is preparing for a press meeting on Thursday where she is expected to provide details about her return to the country after 10 months, and to outline the strategy she intends to use to challenge the regime and push for democratic change. So far it is known that the opposition leader will launch an ambitious national tour for which significant precautions are being taken.
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed on Monday that the United States told Delcy Rodríguez’s regime “weeks and weeks ago” that opposition leader María Corina Machado should be allowed to return to Venezuela.
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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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La leader dell’opposizione venezuelana María Corina Machado è rientrata a Caracas ieri sera, dopo quasi un anno di esilio. Il Venezuela sta dando “una lezione al mondo intero”, ha detto la premio Nobel per la pace appena rientrata nel Paese. Governo e opposizione sono impegnati in un negoziato dallo scorso agosto. Il leader del Partito Popolare (PP), Alberto Nunez Feijó, ha accolto con favore il ritorno in Venezuela della leader dell’opposizione e premio Nobel per la pace 2025, María Corina Machado. Feijó ha affermato che a questo evento dovrebbero seguire “elezioni libere” nel Paese, consentendo al popolo di esprimere la propria scelta alle urne.
Sul suo profilo X, Feijó ha descritto il rientro di Machado in Venezuela come un “momento emozionante”, che rappresenta, a suo avviso, “la forza di chi non si arrende e la conferma che la libertà trova sempre il modo di prevalere sulla tirannia”. “Ci auguriamo che la sua sicurezza sia pienamente garantita e che il popolo venezuelano possa esprimersi attraverso elezioni libere. La democrazia deve sempre trionfare”, ha detto il leader del PP.
Attivista carismatica, Maria Corina Machado è il perno dell’opposizione venezuelana, ma si trova ad affrontare una dura sfida al suo ritorno in un Paese ora governato da un leader che gode del favore del presidente statunitense Donald Trump. Machado, 59 anni, è in esilio da quando ha lasciato clandestinamente la sua patria sudamericana alla fine dello scorso anno per ricevere il Premio Nobel per la Pace.
Secondo il suo partito, Vente Venezuela, ha tentato più volte di tornare, ma è stata bloccata, prima di apparire domenica in una chiesa nella città di Barquisimeto, circondata da sostenitori festanti. Il mese successivo alla sua fuga dal Venezuela, le forze statunitensi hanno arrestato il leader autoritario del Paese, Nicolas Maduro, e lo hanno trasferito a New York per affrontare le accuse penali.
Machado ha elogiato Trump per aver lanciato la rischiosa operazione, arrivando persino a conferirgli la sua medaglia del Premio Nobel, nonostante Washington abbia permesso alla vice di Maduro, Delcy Rodríguez, di governare come presidente ad interim. A dimostrazione della sua posizione scomoda, Machado è stata esclusa dai colloqui promossi dagli Stati Uniti per una transizione democratica tra il governo ad interim e i rappresentanti dell’opposizione.
L'articolo Venezuela, così Machado è tornata a Caracas. La premio Nobel ora punta a guidare il Paese. “Prime elezioni libere” proviene da Affaritaliani.it.
About 900,000 fresh flowers hung from walls, columns and ceilings; there were tins of caviar for each guest, Dom Pérignon, three wedding dresses and a 30-piece orchestra. The Waldorf Astoria ballroom in New York hosted a wedding in September that was put together in under three months and cost around $10 million, according to the U.S. media. It was the week of the United Nations General Assembly, with Manhattan full of heads of state and diplomats, and the party drew major figures from U.S. power circles, oligarchs, Congolese politicians, the rapper Nelly on stage, and even former boxer Mike Tyson. But above all the celebration brought together the top ranks of Trumpism: the attorney general Todd Blanche; the FBI director Kash Patel; and White House counsel Will Scharf. It was a MAGA wedding for the glossy magazines.
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It is 2022. In a neighborhood in western Caracas, Yolanda (a fictitious name) walks through a checkpoint manned by hooded police officers. In her pocket, she carries a small transparent bag containing several misoprostol pills – the second part of the treatment recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) for a safe medical abortion.
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Washington has stepped on the accelerator to renew Venezuela’s Supreme Tribunal. It is its first major democratizing initiative in the country and the main task of the negotiation table between the 2015 National Assembly and the government of Delcy Rodríguez, which meets again this Wednesday. The goal is to have a new court by December, but beyond the outline the United States published last week, nothing is as yet known about the timetables, the profiles sought, the procedures to challenge appointments and how civil society will take part in a process crucial to a country that is supposedly moving toward a democratic transition.
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“There is only one president in this country and his name is Nicolás Maduro Moros,” Venezuela’s current interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, said on the same day as the U.S. attack that ended with the detention of the former chavista leader and his wife, Cilia Flores. Rodríguez described the military intervention in Caracas as an “illegal and illegitimate kidnapping of the president and first lady.” However, Venezuela later did not take any formal steps to demand the couple’s release or to request their immunity so they would not be tried in the United States.
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