Voices of Women on Instagram: "Even after winning Venezuela’s opposition primary by a landslide, María Corina Machado was barred from running. That wasn’t the first time power tried to silence her. Years earlier in Venezuela, she co-founded a citizen movement to expose electoral irregularities. That decision led to her being publicly targeted and eventually removed from parliament. Instead of stepping away, she stayed on the ground. When rallies were blocked, she continued travelling across the

Mixed messages emerged in Washington over Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado after President Donald Trump questioned whether she has sufficient support inside Venezuela to lead the country. Trump described her as a “very nice woman” but suggested she lacks the respect needed to govern, sparking concern among Venezuelan activists and allies closely following U.S. signals on the crisis. Shortly after, Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart publicly pushed back, rejecting any suggestion that U.S. Re