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Nobel laureate María Corina Machado returns to Venezuela after months in exile to press for new elections

Nobel laureate María Corina Machado returns to Venezuela after months in exile to press for new elections

'I am here. With you,' María Corina Machado posted on X on Sunday, as her party shared photos of her in a church in Lara State. President Donald Trump said: 'She gave me her Nobel Prize, so how can I say anything else?' He added that he hopes she is safe. Her spokesman David Smolansky called the return a major step toward free, fair elections.

She left a month before US forces seized Nicolás Maduro in a January raid on Caracas.

Rodríguez, Maduro's former deputy, signed an oil deal with Washington after being sworn in.

Ally Edmundo González Urrutia said: 'Our leader, my dear María Corina, is on Venezuelan soil.'

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