SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2026|No. 20087
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Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado returns from exile

Opposition leader María Corina Machado has returned to Venezuela after spending ten months in exile, marking a significant development in the country's political landscape.

Opposition leader María Corina Machado returns to Venezuela after ten months abroad.
Opposition leader María Corina Machado returns to Venezuela after ten months abroad.
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Venezuelan opposition leader María Machado returns after months in exile

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has returned home to a fraught political landscape after over 10 months in exile.

"I am here. With you," Machado wrote on X on Sunday.

Her ally, former presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia, confirmed the news minutes later, writing: "I am thrilled to announce to you that our leader, my dear María Corina, is on Venezuelan soil."

In January, a month after Machado left Venezuela to accept the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway, the US seized her opponent, President Nicolás Maduro.

The Trump administration then backed his deputy, Delcy Rodríguez, as leader, and she was sworn in as interim president, later signing an oil deal with the US.

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