# Venezuelan opposition leader Machado returns after months in exile as doubts over democracy deepen

https://mins.news/en/item/114872

- The Associated Press, 2026-10-25 16:22 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://bit.ly/3ULQBS4

> Nobel laureate María Corina Machado announced on social media that she had returned to Venezuela. It was her first appearance in the country since December, and she said, “I am here.”

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