Nobel peace prize winner’s return after almost a year in exile is unlikely to please interim president Delcy Rodríguez The Venezuelan opposition leader, María Corina Machado, has announced she has returned to Venezuela almost a year after she left the country to receive the Nobel peace prize. “I’m here. With you,” she wrote on X on Sunday lunchtime. Continue reading...
Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado returns from exile
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