Back from exile, Machado thanks Trump and calls for Venezuela elections in 2027

Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado, back in Caracas after more than 10 months in exile, thanked the Trump administration for opening the 'floodgate to freedom' by seizing President Nicolas Maduro in January. In her first public remarks since returning, she called for presidential elections next year and criticised a US oil deal with Caracas.