Venezuela: Opposition Leader María Corina Machado Blocked from Returning

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was blocked on Tuesday from returning to her home country from Panama, where she has been living in exile. This was reported by Digi24 and G4Media, citing Agence France-Presse and sources in her political party, Vente Venezuela.

Machado, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, left Venezuela clandestinely in 2025 to accept the award and has remained abroad since. Her team confirmed that she attempted to return but was stopped. The precise circumstances of the intervention and further details have not yet been disclosed.