Get our news on your inbox! x

Remember me Forgot password

MercoPress, en Español

Montevideo, April 19th 2024 - 07:23 UTC

Tag: María Corina Machado

  • Saturday, January 27th 2024 - 10:31 UTC

    Venezuela's Supreme Court upholds Machado's electoral ban

    With Friday's ruling, “the regime decided to end the Barbados Agreement,” Machado argued on X

    Venezuela's Supreme Court (TSJ) Friday upheld a decision by the Comptroller General's Office whereby opposition leader María Corina Machado may not run in this year's elections after having been disenfranchised despite garnering 92.35% of the votes in the Oct. 22 primaries. The TSJ also confirmed Friday the disqualification of two-time presidential candidate Henrique Capriles.

  • Wednesday, December 20th 2023 - 09:55 UTC

    Maduro meets with Repsol executives to advance on joint venture

    Repsol has a 40% stake in Petroquiriquire

    Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro met Tuesday in Caracas with executives from the Spanish oil company Repsol to further discuss the details of Monday's agreement with the South American country's PDVSA (Petróleos de Venezuela) to reactivate operations as the United States temporarily lifted some sanctions previously imposed on the regime.

  • Tuesday, October 31st 2023 - 10:32 UTC

    Venezuelan Supreme Court annuls Machado's win in primaries

    Machado has not spoken publicly since the court's ruling was announced

    The Electoral branch of Venezuela's Supreme Court (TSJ) has annulled the opposition's Oct. 22 primaries whereby María Corina Machado had been chosen to take on President Nicolás Maduro in the 2024 elections. The Court argued that Machado had been disenfranchised for 15 years in addition to fraud allegations affecting the process, it was reported in Caracas.

  • Tuesday, October 24th 2023 - 09:14 UTC

    Machado wins Venezuelan primaries by a landslide

    Machado's ban needs to be lifted before she can run against Maduro

    Opposition leader María Corina Machado obtained 93.13 % of the vote in Venezuela's primary elections held Sunday. According to local authorities in Caracas, the results were not released until Monday due to technology issues. Although Machado was widely expected to win, it remains to be seen whether she is allowed to run against President Nicolás Maduro, who has been in office since 2012.

  • Sunday, October 22nd 2023 - 23:17 UTC

    In the hope of political change in 2024, thousands vote in Venezuela's opposition primaries

    Liberal María Corina Machado, a pariah of the Venezuelan opposition for the past decade, is now emerging as a strong favorite.

    Thousands of Venezuelans voted this Sunday in the opposition primaries in the hope of a change of president in 2024, a long race that citizens opposed to chavismo took on with enthusiasm, with the purpose of voting. Liberal María Corina Machado, a pariah of the Venezuelan opposition for the past decade, is now emerging as a strong favorite.

  • Wednesday, September 13th 2023 - 10:55 UTC

    Venezuelan opposition leader Machado asks Brazil for help

    “Maduro knows that, in the presidential elections of 2024, I will defeat him, and that is why he is afraid,” she stressed.

    Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado Tuesday asked the Brazilian Senate's Public Security Committee through a video appearance to help the Caribbean country hold fair primary elections. Machado also denounced the attacks by Nicolás Maduro's regime and insisted she intended to run despite her disenfranchisement.

  • Tuesday, July 18th 2023 - 10:55 UTC

    Solution to Venezuelan crisis sought in Brussels

    Machado's disenfranchisement was discussed by Fernández, Lula, Petro, Macron, Borrell, Rodríguez, and Blyde, according to diplomatic sources

    Presidents Alberto Fernández of Argentina, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, Gustavo Petro of Colombia, and Emmanuel Macron of France Monday got together in Brussels on the sides of the EU-Celac Summit with Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez and opposition leader Gerardo Blyde in a multilateral effort to find a solution to the political crisis in the Bolivarian country. Also participating in the gathering was the EU's top diplomat Josep Borrell.

  • Saturday, July 1st 2023 - 11:09 UTC

    Another prominent Venezuelan opposition leader banned from political life

    Maduro's regime knows it is defeated, Machado argued on social media

    Venezuela's Comptroller General Friday announced opposition leader María Corina Machado had been disenfranchised for 15 years, thus rendering her ineligible to run in next year's presidential elections.

  • Wednesday, April 3rd 2019 - 19:15 UTC

    Guaidó after the strip of his immunity: “Nothing is going to stop us”; leaders ask for military intervention

    The president of the National Assembly reiterated the call to the streets that is scheduled for this Saturday, April 6, amid the power cuts and political crisis

    The ruling National Constituent Assembly (ANC) decided to withdraw parliamentary immunity to the opposition leader, President of the National Assembly (AN) and declared interim President of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, who affirmed that nothing will stop him by ensuring that “there is no need to respond to an organism that does not exist. ” Opposition leaders expect to activate an article of the constitution that allows the AN to authorize a foreign military intervention in the country in order to withdraw “illegitimate” President Nicolás Maduro.

  • Friday, December 14th 2018 - 20:07 UTC

    Attack on Venezuelan opposition leader said to be slow-motion assassination

    “Maduro is the new Pablo Escobar,” Pastrana said.

    Former Colombian President Andrés Pastrana said Wednesday's attack against Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was to poison her with a delayed-effect substance.