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Crowds welcome Venezuela's María Machado after months in exile

The Venezuelan opposition leader spent more than 10 months in exile after escaping the country on a speedboat.

BBC World•

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has returned home after more than 10 months in exile.

"I am here. With you," Machado wrote on X on Sunday. Her return came after several prior efforts to re-enter the country came to no avail.

The US seized her opponent, President Nicolás Maduro, last January. The move came a month after Machado escaped Venezuela under cover of darkness to accept the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway.