Opposition leader says her movement is ready to win a fair election and praises Trump for toppling the president
From elation to frustration: Trump snub wrongfoots Venezuela’s opposition
The Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has vowed to return to the country as soon as possible and rejected the authority of the interim president backed – for now – by the US after it forcibly removed Nicolás Maduro from power.
Machado told Fox News from an undisclosed location that her movement was ready to win a free election, and praised Donald Trump for toppling Maduro.
Many in Venezuela and abroad had expected Machado to take charge of the country after Maduro’s detention on Saturday, but Trump sidelined her and gave his backing to Maduro’s former vice-president, Delcy Rodríguez.
