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Published on: 10/01/2025 | 00:00:00
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Mara Corina Machado is free and “in a safe place” in a bizarre episode that capped a day of protests she led seeking to block President Nicolás Maduro from clinging to power. In a post on her official account on X, she said “I am now in… More determined than ever before to continue with you UNTIL THE END!”. Machado, 57, is a hard-liner and former lawmaker who stayed and fought against Maduro even after many of her allies among opposition leaders went into exile in the face of repression. In a last minute move, she backed unknown outsider, retired diplomat Edmundo González, who crushed maduro by a more than two-to-one margin. US President-elect Donald Trump has also weighed in, in a post on his own González has been in Spain in self-imposed exile since early September. He fled Venezuela following a month of hiding as Maduro’s forces cracked down on dissent.
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