Venezuelan Opposition Leader María Corina Machado RETURNS To Venezuela, President Trump Responds– wltreport.com

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has finally made her way back home.

Machado, who was one of the biggest opposition voices to Nicolas Maduro’s regime in Venezuela, returned back to Venezuela over the weekend.

Machado fled the country in 2025 after being wanted by the Maduro regime for her political activism and eventually made her way to Norway.

Here’s the response to Machado’s return to Venezuela:

¡Este día lo vamos a recordar siempre!

Juntos alcanzaremos la Libertad. 🇻🇪 pic.twitter.com/WTpT1LChYl

— María Corina Machado (@MariaCorinaYA) October 26, 2026

NPR provided further details on Machado’s return:

Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado has returned to Venezuela after ten months abroad, announcing her arrival in a social media post.

In a post on X, Machado declared: “I’m here, with you all.”

Machado made her first public appearance among worshippers at the Church of Santa Rosa in Lara state, western Venezuela, where she was quickly surrounded by an ecstatic congregation. She then travelled on to Caracas, where hundreds of cheering supporters swarmed her car. “Here” she tweeted, when she arrived in the capital.

Her return poses a challenge to interim President Delcy Rodríguez, who took over after U.S. forces captured former leader Nicolás Maduro in January.

The Trump administration has repeatedly sidelined Machado, despite her prominence in the opposition. She has called for elections to be held soon, but Washington says Venezuela must first stabilize.

In January 2025, Machado went into hiding in Venezuela after being briefly detained following a protest. Later that year, she left the country in a clandestine escape, and reappeared in December in Norway, where she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her peaceful challenge to Maduro’s authoritarian government.