María Corina Machado will tour Venezuela upon arriving in the country, says her party

Caracas.- Opposition leader María Corina Machado will tour Venezuela when she arrives in the country, her party Vente Venezuela (VV) announced this Tuesday, without specifying when the leader, who is in the US, will return, after leaving the country and abandoning clandestinity to avoid arrest after her accusations of fraud in the presidential elections.

“Venezuela will be toured before she arrives and then with her again in every space (…) of the national territory,” said the national coordinator of VV, Henry Alviárez, released on February 8 under precautionary measures of presentation before courts and prohibition of leaving the country.

The opponent thus announced a tour of the party through the country, which will be led by him and to which Machado will later join when he returns.

From a press conference in Lara state (west), Alviárez said that the party is organized “not only for when she arrives but for that moment when Venezuelans have to choose the destiny for the coming years.”

Machado left Venezuela last December to receive the Nobel Peace Prize medal in Norway after spending a year in hiding to avoid being arrested by the country’s authorities, who have accused her of violence and of calling for a military invasion.

On Sunday, the opposition figure stated in a video released on social media that she will return to Venezuela “in a few weeks,” with the aim of “guaranteeing an orderly, sustainable, and unstoppable transition to democracy,” after the U.S. captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in a military attack on January 3rd.

However, since the capture of the Chavista leader, the American president, Donald Trump, has forged a good relationship with the government of the interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, who was Maduro’s vice president, because he assures that she is complying with his demands, including the opening of the Venezuelan oil sector for American companies.

The Rodríguez administration has also spoken of a “new political moment” that led it to promote an Amnesty Law that was already approved by Parliament, but excludes people who promoted or participated in armed or forceful actions against the country.