Overview
- Machado announced in a video that she will go back within weeks to execute a transition roadmap, build national consensus, and prepare for what she called a new and massive electoral victory.
- The timing comes nearly two months after reports that U.S. forces captured Nicolás Maduro during a January 3 military operation.
- She argued that no legitimate president was captured and reiterated the opposition’s claim to have won the 2024 election, which the electoral authority declared for Maduro.
- Machado said she recently met in the United States with President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, dozens of members of Congress, and multiple foreign ministers.
- She criticized interim leader Delcy Rodríguez’s administration as seeking to buy time and urged steps to dismantle repression and revive the economy, with Venezuelan authorities yet to comment on her remarks.