“It’s something that we Venezuelans will always remember and we will always be grateful for, so no, I don’t regret it,” he added.
“I don’t regret it,” Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado responded this Saturday (18) in Madrid when asked about the decision to present Donald Trump with his Nobel Peace Prize, before revealing that she is coordinating with the United States his return to Venezuela.
“There is a leader in the world, a head of state in the world, one, who put the lives of citizens of his country at risk for the freedom of Venezuela, and that is Donald Trump”, responded Corina Machado at a press conference in Madrid, when asked if she was not disappointed with the actions of the United States after the military operation in January that removed President Nicolás Maduro from power.
“And this is something that we Venezuelans will always remember and we will always be grateful for, so no, I have no regrets,” he added.
Regarding her return to Venezuela, where she lived in hiding before leaving the country to receive the Nobel Prize in Oslo in December, Corina Machado said she is coordinating her return with Washington.
“I’m talking about this with the United States government and we are doing it in coordination, with mutual respect and understanding”, said the opponent, before stating that Washington is “fundamental to advancing a democratic transition”.
María Corina Machado took the opportunity to attack the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, who is participating in a meeting of international progressive leaders in Barcelona, for calling for a Venezuelan government that includes the interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, and the opposition.
The Venezuelan opposition leader accused the Colombian president of “desperately looking for excuses” so that elections cannot take place in Venezuela.
She included Petro among the “actors or forces that desperately seek excuses, maneuvers, to prevent the advancement of the electoral process in Venezuela.”
“Now the same actors who, faced with fraudulent elections that violated the Constitution, insisted at all costs that it was necessary to participate, refuse to hold elections”, lamented the opposition leader.
“Delcy Rodríguez represents chaos, Delcy Rodríguez represents violence, Delcy Rodríguez and her regime represent terror”, he assessed.
Petro announced that he will travel to Caracas on April 24, in what will be the first visit by a Latin American leader to the country since the fall of Maduro.
In Madrid, one of the favorite destinations for Venezuelans who have emigrated en masse in recent years due to the crisis in their country, María Corina Machado will participate in a demonstration in support of them.
