Overview
- Machado announced in a video that she plans to go back to Venezuela in a few weeks to help steer a transition to democracy.
- Nicolás Maduro is detained in New York on drug terrorism charges after a January U.S. military operation, and the Supreme Court named Delcy Rodríguez interim president.
- Reporting says the interim authorities advanced an amnesty law under U.S. pressure, and indications suggest it would not cover Machado.
- She has largely lived in U.S. exile since leaving to accept the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo and was barred from the 2024 presidential ballot.
- Vente Venezuela asserts it won the 2024 election, while Maduro declared victory, drawing sharp criticism from the United States and other countries.