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Tom Phillips, and Sam Jones in Madrid

Venezuela’s Machado to hold Madrid rally as opposition frozen out after Maduro capture

A portrait photograph of María Corina Machado in front of the colours of the Venezuelan flag
María Corina Machado has not been able to return to Venezuela since leaving in December last year to collect her Nobel peace prize in Norway. Photograph: Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images

Venezuela’s opposition leader, María Corina Machado, will seek to revive her push for political change with a rally in Madrid on Saturday, having found herself sidelined by Donald Trump after the abduction of the president Nicolás Maduro.

“Venezuela will be free,” the Nobel peace prize winner insisted in an interview on the eve of this weekend’s demonstration in the Puerta del Sol square, which is expected to draw tens of thousands of protesters.

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