The leader of the Venezuelan opposition and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner, María Corina Machado, promised this Wednesday to return to Venezuela and announced that she would report in the “coming days” on the “new steps” to achieve a “victory”. “In the coming days we will take new steps, all necessary for our victory. Steps whose detailed explanation I will reserve for the moment for reasons that I know our people understand better than anyone,” Machado said in an audio shared on his X account, on the occasion of Christmas.
“Soon, very soon, I will be back in Venezuela to finalize, with each of you, the final phase of our fight, a fight that is now universal“, added the opponent, without giving further details. Machado valued the “painful sacrifices” and the “very high costs” of Venezuelans, especially for the “politically persecuted” and their families, as well as for those who “are hungry”, are unemployed and struggle to move forward in the midst of Venezuela’s “economic tragedy”.
“This fight is for each of you, to put an end to this injustice and that is why we will never leave you alone,” the former MP also promised. According to him, Venezuelans “are leading an exemplary struggle” and the “best proof” is the Nobel Peace Prizeawarded this year to Machado “for his tireless work in favor of democratic rights” and for his “fight to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy”.
The opposition leader said she had left Venezuela to travel to Oslo to attend the awards ceremony, although she did not arrive on time. after “more than 16 months of clandestinity”, all this to “represent Venezuelans” and receive recognition in their name that “belongs to all”. “As I always told you: physically I have to be there (in Venezuela), where I am most useful to our cause. And this is something that I evaluated and decided every day that I remained clandestine in Venezuela. On this occasion, it was necessary that I arrived in person in Oslo to make our struggle even more visible and increase our external support,” Machado said.
Machado’s last public appearance in Venezuela was on January 9. led a demonstration in Caracas to defend the supposed victory of Edmundo González Urrutia in the presidential elections of 2024, on the eve of the inauguration of Nicolas Maduro, proclaimed winner of these elections by the electoral body, controlled by officials aligned with Chavismo. González Urrutia claims the presidency of Venezuela from his exile in Spain, declaring that he defeated Maduro, whom several countries, including the United States, consider illegitimate.
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