Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado rejected Monday the authority of the interim president replacing Nicolas Maduro in Caracas and said she plans to return home "as soon as possible."
Nobel Peace Prize winner Machado was speaking to U.S. broadcaster Fox News, her first public comments beyond a social media post since the U.S. military forcibly removed Maduro from power Saturday.
"I'm planning to go back to Venezuela as soon as possible," Machado said, speaking from an undisclosed location.
The opposition figure also openly rejected the country's interim President Delcy Rodriguez, saying she "is one of the main architects of torture, persecution, corruption, narcotrafficking."
Rodriguez, who has signaled her willingness to cooperate with Washington, was Venezuela's vice president under Maduro.
