The party Vente Venezuela reiterated this Saturday that its leader, María Corina Machado, will return to the country "in the coming days", without specifying an exact date for the return of the opposition figure, who has been out of Venezuela for months after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
The announcement was made by Henry Alviárez, national organization coordinator of the party, during the event of the reopening of "El Bejucal", the national headquarters of Vente Venezuela in the Altamira neighborhood of Caracas, which had been closed for over a year due to political persecution by chavismo.
"María Corina will arrive in Venezuela in the coming days; she will announce it herself, and she is coming to exercise her full citizen rights," stated Alviárez before party members and supporters.
The leader called on the supporters of Vente Venezuela to organize themselves to welcome Machado at the borders of the country, warning that any retaliation against her would be met with unity: "If they mess with her, they mess with all of us", and all means all, it’s Venezuela.
Alviárez also described a call for elections as "urgent" in Venezuela, pointing out an "absolute lack" of leadership from Delcy Rodríguez, who is currently acting as president, after Nicolás Maduro was captured by U.S. forces on January 3.
"We must open up to everyone, let everyone compete, and then meet again in recognition, respecting the majority will of the citizens," added the leader, who was released on February 8 after almost two years in prison at El Helicoide.
Machado left Venezuela in December 2025 to travel to Oslo, where she received the Nobel Peace Prize on December 10, after spending approximately a year in hiding to avoid being arrested by the regime.
Since then, he has maintained a busy international schedule: in January, he met with President Donald Trump at the White House.
In March, he participated in the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston, where he presented a plan to quintuple Venezuelan oil production with 150 billion dollars in private investments.
Later, he visited Santiago de Chile, where he declared that his return would occur "soon" and "in a harmonious and coordinated manner with allies".
Machado herself had published a video in which she announced that she would return "in a few weeks".
The opposition figure reacted to the reopening of the headquarters with a message on social media: "Come back home! I am there, with each one of you. Let's go for democracy and freedom."
The return of Machado comes at a time of unprecedented political transformation in Venezuela, with the reopening of the U.S. embassy in Caracas on March 14 after seven years of diplomatic break, and with Rodríguez's interim government under increasing pressure to call for free elections before the end of 2026.
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