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<p
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Corina Machado is a far-right Venezuelan coup
leader who has been </span><a
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government</a><span> since at least 2003.</span></p>
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</span><a
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administration is waging war on Venezuela</a><span>,
and if it can succeed in overthrowing the
leftist government of President Nicolás Maduro,
Machado would help to lead the new pro-US regime
in Caracas.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Machado
won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, despite the fact
that she openly </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/f8fbf714-b1c4-4663-8ed4-de92d2927c0b?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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her country</a><span>. She has for years called
for a </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/231424f0-06a1-47d2-a420-d69c0ca2cca0?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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to violently topple President Maduro.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">If
Trump and his powerful Secretary of State and
National Security Advisor Marco Rubio can manage
to put Machado in power, she has pledged to sell
off her country\u2019s assets to US corporations.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Machado
proudly told a group of US corporate executives in
Miami, Florida that she is planning a \u201cmassive
privatization program\u201d, offering \u201ca $1.7 trillion
opportunity\u201d to exploit Venezuela\u2019s oil, natural
gas, infrastructure, gold, and other minerals.</p>
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far-right Venezuelan opposition leader made
these remarks in a </span><a
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America Business Forum</a><span> on 5 November.</span></p>
<p
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spoke before Donald Trump appeared on stage at the
same event. She was interviewed by the Republican
mayor of Miami, Florida, Francis Suarez, a loyal
right-wing ally of Trump and Rubio. (He is also
the son of Xavier Suarez, who previously served as
Miami\u2019s mayor.)</p>
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Trump speaks at the 2025 America Business
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<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
following is a partial transcript of Machado\u2019s
comments (all emphasis added):</p>
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<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>And
this is amazing, super exciting for me: </span><strong>We
will open Venezuela for foreign investment</strong><span>.
</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><strong>I
am talking about a $1.7 trillion opportunity</strong><span>,
not only in </span><strong>oil and gas</strong><span>,
which is huge, and you know that there are
opportunities, because we will open all,
upstream, midstream, downstream, to all
companies; but also in </span><strong>mining</strong><span>,
in </span><strong>gold</strong><span>, in </span><strong>infrastructure</strong><span>,
power.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">We
have, our grid right now has a 17 gigawatt
opportunity of energy potential that needs to be
rehabbed, certainly for technology and AI.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">And
tourism, you know, Venezuela has 2800km of
pristine Caribbean coastline ready to be
developed.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>So
this is going to be huge. We will bring rule
of law. </span><strong>We will open markets</strong><span>.
We will have security for foreign investment,
and a transparent, </span><strong>massive
privatization program that is waiting for you</strong><span>.</span></p>
</blockquote>
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coup leader María Corina Machado is
interviewed by Francis Suarez, the mayor of
Miami, Florida, at the 2025 America Business
Forum</figcaption></figure>
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<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">This
was not the first time that Machado had made this
promise.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Machado
also spoke virtually at the </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/421e8a67-2f06-4511-8414-ec10b5898887?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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in Saudi Arabia in October, where she offered a
\u201cbusiness opportunity, of more than $1.7
trillion\u201d.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cVenezuela
will be the single biggest economic opportunity
for decades to come in this region\u201d, vowed the US
government-funded Venezuelan coup leader.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Machado
presented her ultra-right-wing economic program
at an </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/6b73fe6a-1e9b-47ff-9c1c-9b827b463997?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
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moz-do-not-send="true">event in June hosted by
AS/COA</a><span>, a corporate lobby group </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/31a26bdc-e733-4800-8745-ed44cf8e1efd?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">funded by a Who\u2019s Who of
large US companies</a><span>.</span></p>
<h3 class="header-anchor-post"
style="position: relative;font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;font-size: 1.375em;">US
companies \u201care going to make a lot of money\u201d,
promised Venezuelan coup leader María Corina
Machado</h3>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>In
an </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/583aae35-5a34-413d-bc51-57452f133176?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">interview with Donald
Trump Jr.</a><span> in February, Machado again
promised to sell off her country\u2019s assets to US
corporations.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cWe
are going to privatize all our industry\u201d, she
said, stressing that US companies \u201care going to
make a lot of money\u201d.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">These
were her remarks:</p>
<blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #ad0000;margin: 20px 0;padding: 0;">
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Forget
about Saudi Arabia; forget about the Saudis. I
mean, we have more oil, I mean, infinite
potential.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>And
</span><strong>we\u2019re going to open markets.
We\u2019re going to kick [out] the government from
the oil sector. We\u2019re going to privatize all
our industry.</strong></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Venezuela
has huge resources: oil, gas, minerals, land,
technology. And, as you said before, we have a
strategic location, you know, hours from the
United States.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">So
we\u2019re going to do this right. We know what we
have to do.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u2026</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>And
</span><strong>American companies are in</strong><span>,
you know, </span><strong>a super strategic
position to invest</strong><span>.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u2026</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>This
country, Venezuela, is going to be the </span><strong>brightest
opportunity for investment of American
companies</strong><span>, of good people that
</span><strong>are going to make a lot of money</strong><span>.</span></p>
</blockquote>
<h3 class="header-anchor-post"
style="position: relative;font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;font-size: 1.375em;">María
Corina Machado boasts that she is being supported
by Marco Rubio and other US government officials</h3>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Machado
has boasted of the fact that she and her
coup-plotting movement in Venezuela are receiving
support from numerous US government officials,
including Marco Rubio, the second-most powerful
person in the administration after Trump himself.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>In
an </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/3539a50d-742a-449a-8b2f-f059ab54fd0b?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">interview with Bloomberg
reporter Mishal Husain</a><span> in October,
Machado revealed, \u201cI have been in contact not
only with several officials in the US
government, but also in other countries \u2014 in
Canada, in Latin America, in the Caribbean, and
certainly Europe as well\u201d.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Husain
asked if Machado has specifically been in touch
with Rubio. The Venezuelan coup leader confirmed
that she has.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cI
have been in touch with [Rubio], of course, and
with his team\u201d, Machado divulged. \u201cAnd I have to
say, even further in Congress, both aisles, you
know, in both parties, we have really good friends
and champions of our cause\u201d.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">In
her virtual remarks at the America Business Forum
on 5 November, Machado also thanked more US
government officials for supporting the coup
attempt in Venezuela.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">This
is what she said:</p>
<blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #ad0000;margin: 20px 0;padding: 0;">
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>I\u2019m
so grateful to the </span><strong>Secretary
of State Marco Rubio</strong><span>, that has
been, you know, the champion of the cause of
freedom and democracy in the Americas.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>I
want to thank </span><strong>Governor
DeSantis</strong><span>. </span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>I
want to thank my friend, </span><strong>Senator
Rick Scott</strong><span>, that has always
trusted us.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>And
now </span><strong>Senator Ashley Moody</strong><span>.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>And
of course, I have to say, and I want to make a
special mention to our three amigos, our three
friends, [Congress members] </span><strong>María
Elvira Salazar, Mario Díaz-Balart, and Carlos
Giménez</strong><span>, who have been so, so,
so close, and always supporting us. </span></p>
</blockquote>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Machado
likewise expressed gratitude to the Miami mayor,
Francis Suarez, who was interviewing her at the
America Business Forum, just two hours before
Trump spoke at the same event.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cYou
have been a great friend, Francis, of our cause. I
am so grateful to you\u201d, she said.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
Miami mayor noted that he and Machado had a
friendly conversation before the interview.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cWe
spoke yesterday on the phone, and you invited me
to a free Venezuela, and I look forward to that
day, where I can go with my wife, who is in the
audience, to visit you in the presidential palace,
one day\u201d, Suarez said.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">This
was a clear sign that US government officials hope
to put Machado in power in Caracas. They are
confident that the longtime US government-funded
coup leader would obediently serve US interests in
Latin America.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;margin-bottom: 0;">Machado
stressed that, if Trump and Rubio can help her
overthrow Maduro, she would cut Venezuela\u2019s ties
with China, Russia, and Iran, and their next plan
would be to work with Washington to topple the
leftist governments in Nicaragua and Cuba.</p>
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