In the immediate hours following US forces bombing Caracas and abducting Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Venezuela’s beleaguered opposition was ecstatic.
“Venezuelans, the hour of freedom has arrived,” declared María Corina Machado, the leader of Venezuela’s opposition movement and recipient of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.
But after US President Donald Trump expressed a lack of confidence in Machado and suggested he’d instead partner with Maduro loyalist Delcy Rodríguez, the opposition’s official channels were quiet for most of the day.
Machado had called for the immediate installation of Edmundo González Urrutia as president, and for the Venezuelan…
