by Monica Showalter
Is something good finally happening in Venezuela?
Over in western state of Lara, south of Aruba, and out near the Colombian border, the little church of Santa Rosa in the beautiful city of Barquisimeto was in for a surprise:
They're going hogwild:
Basically, their president has returned home, their real one, the one they elected in 2024, the one with massive, massive support, and not the freak who's pretending to be president now.
"I'm here. With you all." she tweeted.
According to the New York Times:
Venezuela’s most popular opposition leader, María Corina Machado, has returned to her country after nearly a year in exile, according to a spokesman.
The spokesman, David Smolansky, in a statement, called the return “a major step toward a democratic transition and free, fair, and verifiable presidential elections in the near future.”
Ms. Machado’s efforts to return to Venezuela have been fraught with political tension in recent months. The former member of Venezuela’s Legislature has led the opposition for the past three years, spending much of that time living in hiding inside her country, trying to avoid arrest.
She fled last year to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Then, after the United States captured Venezuela’s autocrat, Nicolás Maduro, in January in a raid on Caracas, the Trump administration chose to elevate another member of his repressive government, Delcy Rodríguez, to the presidency.
It was it was a joyous reunion, a deeply longed for one, a perfect indicator that Maria Corina Machado is as important and relevant as ever as the face of democracy now that she is in the country again.
And that is what Venezuela needs.
President Trump and his little communist puppet, Delcy Rodriguez, have made much of 'stabilizing' the country, and getting the oil industry producing again, and to be sure, there have been some improvements, e.g., Venezuela's not the crime pit it used to be.
But the lights still don't work, the water doesn't turn on, the currency is still garbage, the thugs and cronies are still there, the protests are still happening, and nothing normal about life there, along with a lot of crushed hopes for something better dating from January, when U.S. commandos captured dictator Nicolas Maduro and spirited him back to justice in New York on charges of drug trafficking.
Most important, investors are not coming, at least not in big numbers or laying a lot of cash down. They don't do that with dictators in previously democratic places. They do do it in democracies, which is what Maria Corina Machado truly represents.
Maybe that's why President Trump relented, not giving any criticism to the re-entry even as it did stand to undermine his master-canine relationship with Delcy.
According to the New York Times:
On Sunday after her announcement, President Trump told reporters in Washington: “She’s a very nice woman. She gave me her Nobel Prize, so how can I say anything else? And I hope she’s safe, she’s a very nice woman. But we’re doing really well in Venezuela.”
Thus far, Maria Corina has not been arrested by Chavista thugs who drove her into hiding back in 2024 after her stand-in candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, won the 2024 election and Machado was able to prove that he did even to the European Union as well as many members of U.S. Congress and anyone with a brain to see the obvious proof.
Machado was driven into hiding for that particular 'crime but she wash accused of 'sowing chaos,' collaborating with the United States to overthrow the Chavista government, and being a 'traitor' to Venezuela.
When she won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2025, she made an escape to Norway to accept it, fully expecting to return. Thus far, the Trump administration has not allowed her back in based on ... 'sowing chaos' but they seem to have seen the light and apparently stopped trying to make allies such as the Netherlands stop her from re-entering because somehow she got in, reportedly from Colombia, but look at the map and see how close Aruba is, too.
Now the tables are flipped, and the real collaborators with the United States are sitting in Miraflores palace, doing everything they are told as good obedient puppets on oil production, and the United States has overthrown the last president and put him in jail awaiting trial for drug dealing in New York.
What are they gonna charge her with that they have not already done themselves? Chaos? Them. Collaboration? Them. Traitors? Them. Not that hypocrisy stops a socialist, but so far, so good.
One hopes the U.S. had a hand in this -- for every anonymous creep in the Trump administration who badmouths Maria Corina, there have been good players like this righthand-man of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Chris Landau, posting this below on his personal X acccount, and come to think of it, Rubio himself:
Rubio put it this way:
Which is a good spin, why not?
Whether Trump realizes it or not, it's all good for the United States. Machado is pro-American and sure to lead a pro-American administration as soon as free and fair elections are held.
What's more, with Brazil set to swing rightward in today's election, she would complete the continental shift, an entire continent that has resolutely rejected Marxism and embraced free markets and the United States. We would be in shark's fin soup in this part of the world.
Third, embracing her would be a powerful statement against election fraud, something highly relevant as midterms approach and the Trump team fights a ferocious war with blue states to force election integrity and transparency. Machado is the spearhead of this particular issue, that of leftists cheating and stealing elections and a standing rebuke against the Chavista election practices that Democrats copy to steal elections. Trump should remind everyone of this reality.
Fourth, Trump wins the Latino vote, which is deeply dispirited by a rough immigration policy on some immigrants such as those who fled Cuba and probably Venezuela at Joe Biden's invitation, sold all they owned, and then were thrown back as illegals, which Rep. Ana Maria Salazar of Miami, Florida has outlined earlier as problematic, and yes, I agree with her. They are also dispirited at Trump's policy of embracing Delcy Rodriguez over Maria Corina Machado, and why shouldn't they be? We embrace pro-freedom leaders all over the world and somehow, we embrace the communist on a continent that is rejecting communism?
It needs to be made right. And this return signals that it is being made right. One can only cross fingers in hope that this works out really well for both countries.
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