Senior advisers to President Donald Trump sidelined Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado during deliberations over Venezuela's post-Maduro transition, viewing her insistence on a full democratic overhaul as incompatible with Washington's short-term stability calculations, according to a detailed report by Spain's ABC.
The report says the decision was not driven by improvisation or personal animus but by an internal assessment that installing Machado and her ally Edmundo González after Nicolás Maduro's removal would require a large-scale U.S. military presence.
