Maria Corina Machado has been in hiding since Maduro's disputed reelection in July 2024Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado has issued a big statement after President Nicolas Maduro's capture by US forces. Machado has been in hiding since Maduro's disputed reelection in July 2024. She said in a post on X that opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, whom the opposition says won the vote, "must immediately assume his constitutional mandate" as president. "The time has come for Popular Sovereignty and National Sovereignty to prevail in our country. We are going to restore order, free political prisoners, build an exceptional country, and bring our children back home.

Source: dna January 03, 2026 16:41 UTC