María Corina Machado

It certainly has been a very profound sentiment suddenly in a matter of a few hours to be able to see the people I love most in their eyes and touch them and cry together and pray together.

Then I had a chance to meet also with hundreds of Venezuelan people that are outside the hotel.

You must be so proud of your daughter today.

Oh, I've been proud of her all her life, and my sons as well.

They have taken a really hard part because I had to send them out of the country.

They didn't want to leave, but I forced them to go because I couldn't do my job and at the same time protect them.

So, you know, they were the only ones in their classes at graduation to be without their mother.

And she married, I wasn't with her.

And my son just married, and I wasn't with him.

So it gives me a big sense of guilt, but at the same time, I have so much support from them.

And they are the reason why I do it, as well as all of his own children.

Look, the Chavista regime has tried to divide us.

What brought our country back together is that we want our families back home.

We want our children back home.

So I was thanking the mothers of the political prisoners.

We do my talk every week, but I know that soon they will have

this immense joy that I had today.

I have to ask you about your escape, that you had to wear a wig, a disguise.

You went through 10 military checkpoints, a fishing boat to Curaçao, a private jet, Miami to Oslo.

Venezuela has turned into a nation, a country in which the state applies terrorism.