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Venezuela’s opposition leader Maria Corina Machado returns from exile
The Nobel laureate's homecoming follows national protests demanding free elections.
Al Jazeera•
Venezuela’s opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has successfully returned to the country after more than 10 months in exile.
The current opposition leader, Edmundo Gonzalez, confirmed the news, writing on X that “our leader, my dear Maria Corina, is on Venezuelan soil”.
The Comando Con Venezuela political organisation shared footage of Machado arriving at a church in Lara, where she was greeted by supporters.
Earlier this week, thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets to call for elections in the first nationwide opposition protest in nearly two years.