{"id":524142,"date":"2026-01-07T09:42:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=524142"},"modified":"2026-01-07T09:42:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:42:51","slug":"machado-vows-to-return-to-her-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/machado-vows-to-return-to-her-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Machado vows to return to her country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> NEW YORK<br \/>\nVenezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said on Monday she plans to return home \u201cas soon as possible,\u201d and slammed the interim president in Caracas. In her first public comments since a social media post over the weekend, when the US military forcibly removed and kidnapped President Nicolas Maduro, the Nobel Peace Prize winner vowed to return to her country.<br \/>\nShe had left Venezuela last month to travel to Norway to accept the award, and hasn\u2019t returned since.\u201cI\u2019m planning to go back to Venezuela as soon as possible,\u201d Machado told broadcaster Sean Hannity on Fox News, speaking from an undisclosed location. Machado openly rejected the country\u2019s interim president, Delcy Rodriguez, saying she \u201cis one of the main architects of torture, persecution, corruption, narcotrafficking\u201d.<br \/>\nRodriguez, who has signalled her willingness to cooperate with Washington, was Venezuela\u2019s vice president under Maduro. Machado said Rodriguez is \u201crejected\u201d by the Venezuelan people, and voters were on the opposition\u2019s side. \u201cIn free and fair elections, we will win by over 90 per cent of the votes, I have no doubt about it,\u201d Machado said. Machado also vowed to \u201cturn Venezuela into the energy hub of the Americas\u201d and \u201cdismantle all these criminal structures\u201d that have harmed her countrymen, promising to \u201cbring millions of Venezuelans that have been forced to flee our country back home\u201d.<br \/>\nMachado says she hasn\u2019t spoken to Trump since OctMachado also said on Monday she hasn\u2019t spoken to US President Donald Trump since October 2025.\u201cActually, I spoke with President Trump on October 10, the same day the (Noble Peace) Prize was announced, (but) not since then,\u201d Machado said on the Fox News programme.<br \/>\nShe was awarded the prize for her fight against what the Norwegian Nobel Committee called a dictatorship. She also welcomed the US actions as \u201ca huge step for humanity, for freedom and human dignity\u201d. Trump on Saturday had dismissed the idea of working with Machado, saying \u201cshe doesn\u2019t have the support within or the respect within the country.\u201d  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said on Monday she plans to return home \u201cas soon as possible,\u201d and slammed the interim president in Caracas. 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