Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado vows to return home soon and rejects the interim president, promising free elections and reforms.
WASHINGTON: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said Monday she plans to return home “as soon as possible.”
In her first public comments since the US military removed president Nicolas Maduro, she slammed the interim president in Caracas.
“I’m planning to go back to Venezuela as soon as possible,” Machado told broadcaster Sean Hannity on Fox News.
She spoke from an undisclosed location following the weekend’s events.
Machado openly rejected the country’s interim president Delcy Rodriguez.
She said Rodriguez “is one of the main architects of torture, persecution, corruption, narcotrafficking.”
Rodriguez was Venezuela’s vice president under Maduro and has signaled willingness to cooperate with Washington.
Machado said Rodriguez is “rejected” by the Venezuelan people, with voters on the opposition’s side.
“In free and fair elections, we will win by over 90% of the votes, I have no doubt about it,” Machado said.
She vowed to “turn Venezuela into the energy hub of the Americas.”
Machado also promised to “dismantle all these criminal structures” that have harmed her countrymen.
She pledged to “bring millions of Venezuelans that have been forced to flee our country back home.”
