Venezuelan opposition figure Maria Corina Machado said on Monday that she intends to return to Venezuela at the earliest opportunity while strongly criticizing the interim leadership in Caracas.
In her first public remarks since posting on social media over the weekend following the forcible removal and detention of President Nicolás Maduro by the US military, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate reaffirmed her commitment to go back to her country. Machado had left Venezuela last month to travel to Norway to receive the award and has not returned since.
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Speaking to Fox News host Sean Hannity from an undisclosed location, Machado said she was making plans to return home “as soon as possible.”
Machado: We will turn Venezuela into the energy hub of the Americas. We will bring rule of law, open markets. We will bring millions of Venezuela who fled the country back home pic.twitter.com/gGGAq1o5YX
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Machado openly rejected the country’s interim president, Delcy Rodriguez, saying she “is one of the main architects of torture, persecution, corruption, and narcotrafficking.”
Rodriguez, who has signalled her willingness to cooperate with Washington, was Venezuela’s vice president under Maduro.
Machado said Rodriguez is “rejected” by the Venezuelan people, and voters were on the opposition’s side.
“In free and fair elections, we will win over 90 percent of the votes; I have no doubt about it,” Machado said.
Machado also vowed to “turn Venezuela into the energy hub of the Americas” and “dismantle all these criminal structures” that have harmed her countrymen, promising to “bring millions of Venezuelans that have been forced to flee our country back home.”
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