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Montevideo, November 29th 2025 - 01:53 UTC

Tag: María Corina Machado

  • Friday, November 7th 2025 - 10:38 UTC

    Trump intensifies pressure on Maduro after Senate refuses to limit his military powers

    Trump defended the US military’s extrajudicial strikes. “We’re blowing up cartel terrorists linked to Maduro’s regime”

    Despite the legislative setback, President Donald Trump continues to escalate his campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, whom he accuses of leading a regional narcotics network.

  • Thursday, November 6th 2025 - 10:45 UTC

    Machado outlines her vision for Venezuela when democracy returns

    Machado was highly acclaimed by business leaders, officials, and Venezuelan diaspora representatives

    Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said during her telematic appearance at the Miami-held America Business Forum that if her country were liberated, so should be Cuba and Nicaragua.

  • Wednesday, November 5th 2025 - 10:54 UTC

    High-profile event featuring Trump, Milei, and Messi, among others, kicks off in Miami

    Machado is due to appear remotely from Venezuela

    A high-profile summit featuring Presidents Donald Trump of the United States and Javier Milei of Argentina, alongside Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, is set to start on Wednesday at the America Business Forum in Miami. The unprecedented event, held at the Kaseya Center, brings together influential figures from global politics, finance, and elite sports to discuss the pivotal role of personal leadership in an era of complex global change.

  • Friday, October 10th 2025 - 10:58 UTC

    Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for her fight for democracy

    Machado has spent nearly a year in hiding due to political persecution by the government of Nicolás Maduro

    The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, recognizing her for “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela” and “her struggle for a fair and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”

  • Thursday, July 17th 2025 - 10:10 UTC

    Cabello foresees Machado leaving Venezuela shortly

    Machado and Guaidó are one and the same, Cabello claimed

    Venezuela's Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello warned on Wednesday in his TV show that María Corina Machado, also known as La Sayo (or La Sayona), would be departing for the United States shortly, citing fears for her life, particularly given the impending deadline granted to her to avoid causing unrest and destabilization before the July 27 elections.

  • Wednesday, July 2nd 2025 - 10:20 UTC

    Cabello outlines scope of antiterrorist operations

    Cabello linked these terrorist activities to opposition leader María Corina Machado

    Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello on Tuesday reported on new alleged terrorist plots by the “far right” in collusion with drug traffickers and foreign agents. He asserted that this was a single, coordinated conspiracy, which had been thwarted through arrests across several states, including judges, mayors, and police officers.

  • Friday, May 23rd 2025 - 20:42 UTC

    Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Pablo Guanipa arrested ahead of Sunday elections

    A lawyer and former member of the Parliament, Guanipa has long been a prominent voice within the Venezuelan opposition. In recent months, he had frequently appeared alongside Machado at rallies

    Venezuelan opposition figure Juan Pablo Guanipa, a close ally of presidential candidate María Corina Machado, was arrested by government forces on Friday, just two days before the country’s regional and legislative elections.

  • Thursday, May 22nd 2025 - 10:26 UTC

    Machado urges Venezuelans not to vote next Sunday

    “Let it be clear who has the power: you,” Machado underlined

    Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has called for a boycott of the May 25 regional and legislative elections, labeling them a “farce” and a “trap,” urging the citizenry to stay home. However, others standing up to Nicolás Maduro's regime suggested otherwise.

  • Friday, February 28th 2025 - 08:32 UTC

    Machado says Chavista regime threatens her neighbors

    “We are facing a criminal system; this is not a political crisis,” Machado underlined

    Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado denounced on Thursday that “unidentified men” attempted to force their way into her home in Caracas' Los Palos Grandes area and insisted these people representing Bolivarian ruler Nicolás Maduro's “furious tyranny” threatened to arrest her neighbors and a watchman.

  • Friday, January 31st 2025 - 08:34 UTC

    Venezuela: Israel's FM says his country supports González Urrutia

    Venezuela will be an ally of all the world's democracies once Maduro is toppled, Machado told Sa'ar (R)

    Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar Thursday told Venezuelan opposition leaders Edmundo González Urrutia and María Corina Machado that the Middle East country had its South American counterpart's freedom in mind: “Venezuela shall be free,” Sa'ar insisted during a telephone conversation. He also invited the man most Western nations recognize as the legitimate winner of the controversial July 28, 2024, elections to visit Israel shortly.

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