Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who pipped Donald Trump to the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, has returned home after nearly a year abroad.
Ms Machado, 59, has been in exile since covertly leaving her South American homeland late last year to receive the award.
‘I’m here. With you all,’ she wrote on social media early on Sunday, addressing her fellow countrymen.
She appeared on Sunday at a church in the city of Barquisimeto in northwestern Venezuela, surrounded by cheering supporters. Her Vente Venezuela party said she had previously made several unsuccessful attempts to return, each of which had been blocked.
However, her return risks straining
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