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Machado framed the most up-to-date piece as unprecedented, crediting each domestic resistance and international backing.
Venezuelan leader Maria Corina Machado offered her Nobel Prize to US President Donald Trump. (Reuters)
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado declared that Venezuela became on the cusp of freedom and vowed to elongate that fight throughout the position, pointing to Cuba and Nicaragua as the following targets in what she described as a push against communism. Machado acknowledged the nation’s prolonged-running political disaster had reached a decisive turning level following the capture of President Nicolas Maduro.
“Venezuela will be free,” she said, adding, “And once we liberate Venezuela, we will keep working, and we will have a free Cuba and a free Nicaragua. For the first time in history, we will have the Americas free of communism, dictatorship and anarcho-terrorism.”
‘A Ancient Second’
Machado framed the most up-to-date piece as unprecedented, crediting each domestic resistance and international backing for bringing Venezuela to what she described as a 2nd of reckoning.
“Right here’s a historical 2nd,” she said, adding, “We wouldn’t be here without the commitment, resilience, generosity and courage of the Venezuelan people, but also because of the support, vision and courage of incredible leaders, such as the president of the United States, Donald Trump and members of this honourable Congress.”
She singled out US lawmakers Mario Diaz-Balart, Carlos Gimenez and Maria Elvira Salazar for his or her toughen of the Venezuelan opposition, asserting they stood by the motion when others believed the fight became unwinnable.
“When many belief it became no longer seemingly to defeat this narco-terrorist regime, when many told us to present up, you trusted the Venezuelan of us for the apt causes ensuing from freedom always prevails,” she said.
Machado cast Venezuela’s struggle in moral terms, calling it “an existential fight for life,” “an ethical fight for the fact” and “a spiritual fight for good.”
She thanked the American of us and Congress, arguing that shared democratic values would reshape Venezuela’s position within the position.
“We portion the solutions and values that built this nation- the identical values our founding fathers believed in and defended in Venezuela. These values will flip our nation into the strongest ally the US has ever had within the position,” she said.
Machado’s remarks followed a January 3 US military operation in Venezuela that resulted in Maduro’s capture. In the aftermath, Vice President Delcy Rodríguez assumed office as interim president. Maduro is now in US custody and is expected to stand trial in the United States on drug trafficking charges. The Trump administration has also moved to assert control over Venezuelan oil exports, seizing multiple sanctioned tankers. The intervention has triggered sharply divided international responses. Countries including Brazil, Chile, China, France, Iran, Mexico, Russia and Spain have condemned the US action, while leaders in Argentina, Germany, Israel, Peru and Ukraine have welcomed the developments.
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First Published:
January 22, 2026, 18:48 IST
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