Francisco Rodríguez

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The opposition right now at this moment is very demoralized, and it's very demoralized because everything that has happened, everybody would have expected that

The day that Maduro left, the opposition would come into power.

And that's exactly what didn't happen.

And people are trying to make sense of this.

I think that this has also led to a lot of soul searching in the opposition about whether the strategy was correct.

I mean, the strategy led by Maria Corina Machado, because she is an atypical type of leader.

I mean, she has a lot of popular support and made that definitely felt in the 2024 elections.

But she has been,

the most uncompromising leader in all of the opposition.

I mean, if we can think about there being a left-right spectrum, which is, of course, an oversimplification, she's been to the right of the opposition during these last 25 years.

For example, she criticized Juan Guaidó, who was the leader of the National Assembly, and recognized

by many nations as the interim president of Venezuela for several years, for not calling for a military intervention.

And she embodies this paradox.

A, somebody who's received the Nobel Peace Prize, but at the same time was calling for a military intervention.

And then there's her closeness or her attempt to get close to Trump, which has led her not to criticize