Maria Corina Machado

This week on NPR's Newsmakers, Maria Corina Machado.

The Venezuelan opposition leader gave President Trump her Nobel Prize, but he has questioned her leadership and openly supported her rivals.

We are the government elect, not the opposition.

We want an election.

Venezuela's Machado walking a tightrope as she fights to return home.

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Do you think Delcy Rodriguez is doing this on her own willingness to think that someone that has put children behind...

Yale and teenage girls being forced to sexual activities just to have the possibility to see their mothers while they were in jail.

And she was the one overlooking this process.

Do you think she's doing this on her own will?

Of course not.

But it's not only about me.

It's about hundreds of political leaders that have been forced to flee.

many other hundreds or thousands that are in hiding right now in Venezuela.

We're talking to her and maybe we can get her involved in some way.

I'd love to be able to do that.

Maria, maybe we can do that.

Maria Corina Machado tells reporters in D.C.

she's confident there will be an orderly return to free elections in Venezuela.

She was banned from running for president against Nicolas Maduro.