Venezuelan opposition leader says democratic transition would be 'fall of the Berlin Wall' for Americas

Venezuela absorption person María Corina Machado argued that a palmy antiauthoritarian modulation for her state would rapidly alteration the nation's system and reverse years of instability, reshaping the region’s governmental landscape.

Machado told the New York Post successful an interrogation that specified an result would specify Trump’s overseas argumentation legacy, comparing it to the autumn of the Berlin Wall.

"The bequest to the satellite is going to beryllium huge," she explained. "You’re going to person a prosperous Venezuela and the region.… If you marque a examination successful history, this would mean for the Americas arsenic overmuch arsenic the autumn of the Berlin Wall had for Europe. It’s equivalent.

"For the archetypal clip successful history, you volition person the Americas escaped of communism, dictatorship and narcoterrorism for the archetypal time," she added.

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Venezuelan absorption person Maria Corina Machado speaks during a quality league astatine The Heritage Foundation successful Washington, DC, connected Jan. 16, 2026. (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Machado said she intends to instrumentality to Venezuela soon to assistance thrust a antiauthoritarian transition, contempt the risks she faces nether the country’s existent government.

"I request to beryllium there. I privation to spell backmost arsenic soon arsenic possible," Machado said.

Her planned instrumentality would travel astatine a pivotal infinitesimal for Venezuela, arsenic interim President Delcy Rodríguez leads a U.S.-backed modulation pursuing the removal of Nicolás Maduro.

Rodríguez, a adjacent state of Maduro, was sworn into bureau connected Jan. 5 aft U.S. forces ousted the ex-leader and his wife, Cilia Flores, from their compound successful Caracas during a subject operation.

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The State Department told Fox News that a "limited number" of radical are moving connected the crushed successful Venezuela. (Jessica Koscielniak/Reuters; Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Reuters)

The duo were flown to New York and arraigned successful national tribunal connected aggregate charges to which they pleaded not guilty.

Rodríguez has since been moving with the White House and has spoken with President Donald Trump by phone.

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Machado, however, voiced heavy reservations astir Rodríguez’s leadership, informing that the modulation risks falling abbreviated without a broader interruption from the Maduro-era government.

"If Delcy Rodríguez stays, thing genuinely changes," she told the Post. "There volition beryllium nary regularisation of law, nary trust, nary stability. Venezuelans volition not travel location nether a criminal."