María Corina Machado

Their identities are kept secret for 50 years, leaving Nobel watchers guessing about who will get the nod

Notably, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado handed her 2025 Nobel Peace Prize medal to Trump in January while seeking US support for her efforts in Venezuela

Return of Machado aide underscores struggle over Venezuela’s US-aligned government

Delcy Rodriguez outlines institutional rebirth to General Assembly while key rival remains exiled

She has been unable to return to Venezuela since being covertly sneaked out of the country in December by a private U.S. rescue team to accept her Nobel Prize in Norway

The arrangement has faced opposition across Venezuela's political spectrum while also putting a spotlight on one of its key private partners: Venezuelan businessman Alejandro Betancourt, who rose to prominence during the years of the late President Hugo Chávez and Maduro

As Delcy Rodríguez clings to power, dissidents wonder who to trust

The talks aim to reshape the country's political system and lay the groundwork for eventual elections after years of political turmoil

Noticeably absent from the negotiations will be one of the country’s most prominent opposition figures, Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado, who has not been invited to attend

The president offers no evidence for his claim as he also doubles down on his assertion that he should have won a Nobel Peace Prize

It revolves around Deputy Secretary of State Chris Landau, who is suspected by senior administration officials of repeatedly misrepresenting Washington's position on exiled Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado about her return to the country

Venezuelans are assessing the vast scale of their losses 12 days after powerful twin earthquakes killed at least 3,535 people, injured many more and left behind immense destruction

The election was stolen by Venezuela’s autocrat, Nicolás Maduro, who was ousted early this year by U.S. forces

U.S.-Backed Venezuelan Government Blocks Opposition Leader’s Flight Home

At least 1,400 people died from the two earthquakes as of Saturday, and rescue teams from around the world have been trying to help find survivors

Northwestern Venezuela was hit by two earthquakes, measuring 7.2 and 7.5 in magnitude, just minutes apart

The rapid mobilization Thursday comes after back-to-back magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes rocked northern Venezuela roughly 120 miles west of Caracas Wednesday night

Venezuela is now governed by interim president Delcy Rodriguez who was Maduro's vice president and the crude-rich country's oil sales are effectively under US control

The push comes around five months after US forces captured former President Nicolas Maduro

Machado has remained in exile since December, when she emerged after 11 months in hiding in Venezuela and went to Norway to receive her Nobel Peace Prize

These seemingly ordinary actions were all but unthinkable just a few months ago under the rule of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela

Norway's Nobel Committee worried about jailed Iranian laureate

On a visit to Spain this weekend, Machado chose to snub an invitation to meet Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and the left-wing coalition government officials

Venezuela's exiled opposition leader María Corina Machado drew several thousand supporters Saturday to a rally in Madrid, where the Nobel laureate declined a meeting with Spain's progressive Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on a multicountry European tour

After a closed-door meeting earlier this week with US secretary of state Marco Rubio, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado did not disclose details of their conversation

For 12 years, Maduro presided over the hollowing out of Venezuela as the steward of Chavismo, the hybrid regime forged by Hugo Chavez that wrapped authoritarianism in a democratic disguise

In January, ​Exxon CEO Darren Woods called Venezuela "uninvestable" ⁠without durable protections for new investment, comments ​that landed him in hot water with ​U.S. President Donald Trump

However, people with access to the notorious Brooklyn jail where he is being held paint a less rosy picture of what life there is really like

The results of that election will cement — or erase — Petro’s legacy at home, where voters will choose from a field including leftist Iván Cepeda, conservative Paloma Valencia and far-right lawyer Abelardo Gabriel de la Espriella

Machado rose to international prominence for her opposition to Nicolás Maduro, for which she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

One of the biggest questions being asked by Iran experts is whether the fragmented opposition groups can come together and unite in defeating the regime

The Venezuelan opposition leader emerged from hiding nearly three months ago after fleeing her home country

The amnesty was approved by Venezuela's congress on Thursday as part of a wave of reforms encouraged by the United States after it ousted and captured former President Nicolas Maduro on January 3

Interim President Delcy Rodriguez has leveled such accusations against opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who hopes to return to Venezuela at some point from the United States

The bill was signed by interim president Delcy Rodriguez, who pushed for the legislation under pressure from Washington, after she rose to power following Maduro's capture during a US military raid on January 3

However, as he announced Norway's plans, he joked about getting the Nobel Peace Prize

However, as he announced Norway's plans, he joked about getting the Nobel Peace Prize

President Donald Trump veered off script during Thursday's Board of Peace remarks, and while welcoming Paraguayan President Santiago Peña, Trump offered an aside about Peña’s youth and appearance

The trip is the first by a US military delegation since US ‌forces captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro in an audacious raid last month and whisked him to New York to face drug-trafficking charges

Operation Metro Surge will ultimately send nearly 3,000 additional federal officers and agents to the Twin Cities

But he was rearrested hours later following his participation in demonstrations outside detention centers

But last weekend a team of reporters was finally allowed to visit Caracas

The government had released several prominent opposition members from prison Sunday after lengthy politically motivated detentions

An amnesty law that would provide clemency to political prisoners in Venezuela has passed an initial vote unanimously in the National Assembly, stirring hopes among the country’s opposition

Rodriguez calls for healing ‘wounds left by political confrontation’ while announcing notorious El Helicoide prison to shut down

Venezuela's powerful interior minister, Diosdado Cabello, pledged loyalty on behalf of police forces

That sense of safety collapsed on Friday, when García was jailed, not by Venezuelan security forces, but by US immigration authorities

Interim leader Delcy Rodríguez is liberalizing the economy without dismantling her predecessor’s repressive apparatus, raising questions about her aims

Now, almost a month into her new role, Rodríguez has pushed back on the US, amid ongoing pressure including a series of demands for Venezuela to resume oil production

For María Corina Machado, Venezuela's opposition leader, Rodríguez's cooperation with the United States is driven more by pressure than by choice

For some former U.S. officials from both parties who managed Iraq’s reconstruction, the Venezuelan arrangement brings back memories of problems they faced: Even with vastly more oversight and safeguards in place, the Iraqi rebuilding effort, called the Development Fund for Iraq, couldn’t properly account for where its money flowed