Maria Corina Machado

The cartel has taken control of everything and is torturing, destroying, persecuting millions of Venezuela.

They have forced a third of our population to flee and they are destabilizing intentionally the region and undermining

The institutions in the United States, because they have turned Venezuela into the safe haven of the enemies of the United States, Iran, China, Russia, Hezbollah, Hamas, and others.

I believe that you need to cut the flows of illegal criminal business.

The regime has, we have been asking for years, the international community to stop those flows, to stop, you know... Are military strikes a good way to do that?

Well, I think at this point, Maduro...

has a decision in his own hands.

He can stop this process from escalating right now.

Well, first of all, I want to be very clear with this.

Regime change was already mandated by the Venezuelan people on July 28, 2024.

We won by a landslide, the presidential election

and we proved it with over 85% of the original tally sheets, he was defeated.

So it is not regime change.

What we're talking about is a transition to democracy.

And this is a very important point because the narrative of the regime right now is that if Maduro goes,

Cows will come to Venezuela.

That's absolutely false.

Venezuela is in profound total chaos right now.

We are ready and we will handle a peaceful, smooth transition to democracy that will make millions of Venezuela that have been forced to flee to come immediately back to build their country.

Look, you cannot have peace without freedom and you cannot have freedom without strength when you are facing a criminal structure.