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María Corina Machado

What's on María Corina Machado's mind?

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formal talks begin 31% power from outside the room 24% streets before the table 13% still coming home 10% everything else 22%
#1
Venezuela's transition talks finally have a date, a broker and a table

Government and opposition sit down under US brokerage on a path back to an election.

US-backed Venezuela talks to begin without opposition leader Machado

Reuters · 2026-07-31
our translation

she spent two years insisting there was nothing to negotiate until the exit was on the agenda. now it is on the agenda and she has to decide whether a table she does not control is a win or a trap.

Reuters, AJ, France 24 all lead itvery sure · 3 sources
#2
The talks she demanded start without her in the room
Eleven outlets ran 'without Machado'very sure · 3 sources
#3
The July 28 turnout was thinner than the anniversary deserved
Turnout critique landed as talks openedpretty sure · 2 sources
#4
Everything still routes back to one question: an election she can actually enter
Talks framed as path to electionpretty sure · 2 sources
saturday, august 1
Draft the statement on why absence from the table isn't absence from the process(safe bet)
Work the phones to whoever the opposition is actually sending(reported)
Ask Washington, politely, who wrote the guest list(reported)
Get ahead of the thin-turnout story before it becomes the story(reported)

rebuilt from the public schedule, pool reports & old habits — the rest is educated guessing

The source

Draft the statement on why absence from the table isn't absence from the process

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