María Corina Machado Returns to Venezuela After More Than Ten Months in Exile

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has returned to Venezuela after more than ten months in exile. She announced her return on X: "I am here. With you." Edmundo González Urrutia, a former presidential candidate and Machado ally, confirmed she is on Venezuelan soil. She left in December 2025 to accept the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway.