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Pedro Camacho

Venezuelan opposition leader Machado claims to have gone 'into hiding' amid heightened repression

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado speaks to supporters in Caracas' Altamira Square in January 2024 (Credit: Gabriela Oraa/AFP)

After receiving threats from everyone in the Venezuelan government, ranging from the Attorney General to senior officials from the National Assembly, opposition leader María Corina Machado has declared she has gone into hiding.

In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal titled "I Can Prove Maduro Got Trounced", Machado starts off by revealing she is hiding. She then recounts Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia's campaign, the alleged electoral fraud on Sunday and the violent aftermath, which has included her persecution.

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