Munich (Germany), 14 February (LaPresse) – ‘I will return as soon as possible, once I have completed the actions and objectives I am currently working on.’ This was stated by Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado in her video address to the Munich Security Conference. Machado explained that her current commitment is to ‘directly engage, one by one, international actors,’ an opportunity she had not been able to take advantage of until now because ‘I had been banned from leaving Venezuela for over 12 years.’ ‘I am doing this work abroad and as soon as I can, I will return to a country where many things are happening right now,’ she added. The opposition leader said that ‘when the time is right, I will tell the Venezuelan people that it is time to return home.’ According to Machado, ‘thousands of Venezuelan political leaders have been forced to flee’ and ‘almost 9 million Venezuelans are scattered around the world’, all with ‘a deep desire to return home’. Machado specified that the return will only take place when there is ‘certainty that we are moving towards a transition to democracy’.
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