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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent

Nobel laureate Machado: ‘Illegitimate’ Venezuela regime has no right to strike US oil deal

Maria Corina Machado speaks passionately into a microphone with a raised fist at a rally
María Corina Machado addressing the Venezuelan diaspora during a rally in Panama City in May. Photograph: Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images

The Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has questioned Donald Trump’s oil deal with Venezuela’s interim government, saying the country’s natural resources do not belong to “an illegitimate regime”.

In her first public comments since Trump announced what he called “the biggest oil deal in world history” with Venezuela last Friday, Machado walked a diplomatic tightrope between challenging the agreement and trying not to rile the White House.

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