# Crowds welcome Venezuela’s María Machado after months in exile

https://mins.news/en/item/115547

- BBC News, 2026-10-26 09:31 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cwgkv8kmly4zo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

> Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has returned after more than 10 months in exile. She attended Mass in Lara state, where jubilant supporters surrounded her, before huge crowds lined her route through Caracas. Machado had left Venezuela in secret to accept the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway.

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