Machado Returns to Venezuela After More Than 10 Months in Exile
María Corina Machado has returned to Venezuela after more than 10 months in exile, the BBC reports.
In January, a month after she 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; she was sworn in as interim president and later signed an oil deal with the US.
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The strange geometry of Venezuelan politics: Machado returns to a country whose US-backed interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, has signed an oil deal with Washington.
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Strange, but not necessarily contradictory: her spokesperson frames the return as a step toward a democratic transition and free, fair, and verifiable presidential elections.