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María Corina Machado

What's on María Corina Machado's mind?

read fresh this morning at 6
27%18%12%10%33%
no right to sign 27% yes to Washington, no to these terms 18% 'more than money' 12% legitimacy over continuity 10% everything else 33%
#1
The Regime Signed It. She Says It Can't.

The Nobel laureate calls the US-Venezuela oil agreement void at the source: an illegitimate government has no authority to sell the country's oil.

Nobel laureate Machado: ‘Illegitimate’ Venezuela regime has no right to strike US oil deal

The Guardian · 2026-09-03
our translation

she can't stop the deal, so she's attacking the pen that signed it. if the signature was never valid, everything built on it stays renegotiable later.

Guardian, WION, FT all carrying the linevery sure · 5 sources
#2
Pro-America, Anti-This-Contract
Bloomberg and Reuters split the framingvery sure · 4 sources
#3
'Venezuela Is Worth Far More Than Its Oil'
Wire quote reprinted across four continentsvery sure · 4 sources
#4
Her Pitch to Oil Investors: Democracy Is the Risk Premium
Reuters pitch aimed at oil investorspretty sure · 2 sources
saturday, september 5
Repeat the 'illegitimate regime, illegitimate deal' line on every mic(safe bet)
Demand the full contract terms be published, not summarized(reported)
Re-post the 'Venezuela is worth more than its oil' clip(safe bet)
Court oil investors with the democracy-equals-stability pitch(reported)

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

The source

Repeat the 'illegitimate regime, illegitimate deal' line on every mic

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