# Venezuela’s Machado praises Trump for ‘freedom’, urges 2027 elections

https://mins.news/en/item/121880

- Al Jazeera, 2026-10-30 04:40 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/30/machado-lauds-trump-for-freedom-floodgate-urges-2027-elections?traffic_source=rss

> Nobel Peace Prize laureate and opposition leader Maria Corina Machado returned to Venezuela from exile, thanking Trump’s administration for opening the “floodgate to freedom” after the January abduction of President Nicolas Maduro. She called for elections next year and criticised the transparency of a US oil deal with Caracas.

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