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Venezuelan Opposition Leader Machado Vows To Return Home ‘As Soon As Possible’

In her first public comments since a social media post over the weekend, when the US military forcibly removed president Nicolas Maduro from power, the Nobel Peace Prize winner vowed to return to her country.

By Channels Television
Updated January 6, 2026
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Nobel peace laureate Maria Corina Machado addresses a press conference at the Grand Hotel in Oslo, Norway, on December 11, 2025. Machado arrived in Oslo hours after the Venezuelan opposition leader’s award was collected on her behalf by her daughter. Photo by HEIKO JUNGE / NTB / AFP

 

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said Monday she plans to return home “as soon as possible,” and slammed the interim president in Caracas.

In her first public comments since a social media post over the weekend, when the US military forcibly removed president Nicolas Maduro from power, the Nobel Peace Prize winner vowed to return to her country.

“I’m planning to go back to Venezuela as soon as possible,” Machado told broadcaster Sean Hannity on Fox News, speaking from an undisclosed location.

Machado openly rejected the country’s interim president Delcy Rodriguez, saying she “is one of the main architects of torture, persecution, corruption, narcotrafficking.”

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This handout picture released by the Miraflores Palace press office shows Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez (L) taking an oath in front of Venezuela’s National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez (R) and Deputy Nicolas Maduro Guerra (C) during a session of the National Assembly in Caracas on January 5, 2026. (Photo by Marcelo Garcia / Miraflores press office / AFP)

 

Rodriguez, who has signaled 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 by 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.”

AFP

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