In the months before the United States launched a January raid to capture former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela and the US participated in Qatar-mediated talks on what the country might look like if Maduro stepped down.
Yet the vision for a post-Maduro Venezuela discussed in the talks never touched on a role for prominent opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado, according to a Qatari source who spoke with CNN.
The source said that neither US nor Venezuelan officials discussed Machado as part of a post-Maduro transition plan, despite her vocal support for US intervention in Venezuela and her strident criticism of the Maduro government.
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