Meet María Corina Machado, the woman who scares Venezuela's dictator

On Friday, the Venezuelan opposition broke the strategy drawn up by far-right María Corina Machado, who called for abstention in the upcoming elections to elect governors and mayors in the country, thanks to the launching of the candidacy of the opposition party Acción Democrática (AD) for the governors of Táchira, Yaracuy and Anzoátegui, in the May 25 elections. In this regard, the National Secretary General of AD, Bernabé Gutiérrez, ignored th…

Meet María Corina Machado, the woman who scares Venezuela's dictator

Born and trained as an engineer, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has become a powerful symbol of resistance. Once a fringe opposition politician who shocked the nation by interrupting Hugo Chavez, she now leads the charge against the dictatorial regime of his successor, Nicolás Maduro. Although she has gone into hiding, she has not kept quiet. Through remote interviews and media outreach, she's rallied support for the oppositio…

"I'm going to do what María Corina tells me. If tomorrow she thinks something else needs to be done, I'm going to do it," said Florida Republican Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar, recently to a group of Venezuelan opposition activists in Miami. Salazar, an active promoter of illegal sanctions and immigration restrictions, is now trying to project closeness with Venezuelans in the United States, while openly aligning with María Corina Machado, …

A minority sector of the Venezuelan democratic opposition is determined to participate in the regional and parliamentary elections set up for May by Chavismo, despite the...

Last Wednesday, a sector of the Venezuelan opposition, led by former presidential candidate Henrique Capriles, launched the Decide network, an acronym for Citizen Defense of Democracy. A movement that, contrary to what the coalition led by María Corina Machado dictates, proposes to participate in the next regional and parliamentary elections on May 25. “We have no other way,” Capriles insisted from an auditorium of the Central University of Vene…

The Unitary Democratic Platform reiterated that, there are no electoral conditions to participate in the elections of May 25, regarding the launch of the Red Decide, in which various leaders of the parties that make up the opposition bloc have gathered. In a statement on their social networks, the PUD reaffirmed that they will seek to defend the truth of last July 28. They estimate that the call for regional elections is one. “a hasty, unjust an…