Kerry Kahn

We've been asking for a visa for months, and I'm waiting here in neighboring Colombia with our latest ask.

The country's opposition leader, though, Maria Corina Machado, she put out quite an interesting message yesterday urging Maduro's security apparatus to defy his orders.

Bajen las armas.

She says, lower your arms, don't attack your people.

She says, the decisive hour in Venezuela's liberation is coming, and she urged people to be heroes.

Machado has been living in hiding since last year's elections that were widely condemned, and many, including the USA, were stolen by Maduro.

But there's a lot of talk now that she actually left the country and is on her way to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize next month.

It's unclear if she will be allowed back in the country.

It was really a bit of a surprise given just the surge in drug gang-related violence there.

It's just overtaken that country.

And multiple Trump officials have been visiting Ecuador recently.

They've been backing the young conservative president there, who is a staunch Trump ally.

The measure included rewriting the Constitution.

And for many, like this no voter, Rosita Guchemillo, a 48-year-old homemaker in Quito, this was really a no confidence vote for President Daniel Novoa.

She says, we just don't trust him anymore.

She says he'll rewrite the Constitution to favor himself, and she didn't want to give the U.S.

what she said would have been a blank check.

The wave of Israeli airstrikes began early Sunday after Israel's military said it was attacked in southern Gaza by Hamas militants.

The military later confirmed two Israeli soldiers were killed by Hamas.

Gaza's health officials say among the dozens of Palestinians killed were two children.