Maria Corina Machado Archives - Energy Analytics Institute (EAI)

PRESS DIGEST 30 JUN 2026: ARG oil; La Guaira destruction; BOL ports

CARACAS, VENEZUELA (By Energy Analytics Institute, 30.Jun.2026, Words: 425) — The following briefs are compiled from varied media outlets across the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region and beyond and span company details on the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), ACNUR, Bolivian Port Services Administration (ASP-B) and NASA, among others. Energy […]

PRESS DIGEST 29 JUN 2026: VEN rescues; USMCA talks; BOL oil regulations

CARACAS, VENEZUELA (By Energy Analytics Institute, 29.Jun.2026, Words: 655) — The following briefs are compiled from varied media outlets across the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region and beyond and span company details on DART, UNICEF, NASA, OPEC and OSHA, among others. Energy Analytics Institute (EAI) has not verified all of […]

PRESS DIGEST 9 MAY 2026: Machado not part of post-Maduro VEN; Ebrard on CAN investments

MONTERREY, MEXICO (By editors with Energy Analytics Institute, 9.May.2026, Words: 290) — The following briefs are compiled from varied media outlets across the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region and beyond and span company details on state-owned PEMEX, and Enbridge, among others. Energy Analytics Institute (EAI) has not verified all of […]

PRESS DIGEST 17 APR. 2026: Refidomsa growth; Coca Codo Sinclair in ECU; Machado in Madrid

MONTERREY, MEXICO (By editors with Energy Analytics Institute, 17.Apr.2026, Words: 552) — The following briefs are compiled from varied media outlets across the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region and beyond and span company details on Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB), Sinohydro Corporation, Celec EP, among others. Energy Analytics Institute (EAI) […]

PRESS DIGEST 7 MAR. 2026: US petrol prices; Machado to Chile; SouthCom off Venezuela

MONTERREY, MEXICO (By editors with Energy Analytics Institute, 7.Mar.2026, Words: 214) — The following briefs are the top stories from the top media outlets on 7 Mar. 2026 across the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region and beyond, as compiled by editors from Energy Analytics Institute (EAI). EAI has not verified […]

PRESS DIGEST 4 MAR. 2026: Trion field kickoff, QatarEnergy force majeure, Machado’s CCS return

MONTERREY, MEXICO (By editors with Energy Analytics Institute, 4.Mar.2026, Words: 400) — The following briefs are the top stories from the top media outlets on 4 Mar. 2026 across the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region and beyond, as compiled by editors from Energy Analytics Institute (EAI). EAI has not verified […]

ANALYSIS: a look at Machado’s vision, seemingly inherited by Trump, for Venezuela

HOUSTON, TEXAS (By Pietro D. Pitts, Energy Analytics Institute, 14.Jan.2026, Words: 997) — A few years back, the recent Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Venezuela’s leading opposition figure, María Corina Machado, proposed a market-driven overhaul of the Caribbean country’s petroleum industry and finances, aimed at restoring investment, rebuilding capacity, and stabilizing […]

ANALYSIS: Venezuela under Delcy Rodríguez , María Corina Machado or Edmundo González?

PANAMA CITY, PANAMA (By Piero Stewart and Ana Sanches, Energy Analytics Institute, 8.Jan.2026, Words: 670) — Less than a week after the US executed a military plan to unseat Venezuela’s leader Nicolàs Maduro, widespread uncertainty surrounds the Caribbean country, which is home to the world’s largest crude oil reserves. In the […]

Rubio talks with CBS, NBC and ABC about Venezuelan oil and who’s running the country

HOUSTON, TEXAS (Compiled by editors at Energy Analytics Institute, 4.Jan.2026, Words: 3,800) — US secretary of state Marco Rubio spoke with 3 separate US new agencies on 4 Jan. 2025 in the immediate aftermath of the capture of Venezuela’s leader Nicolàs Maduro. What follows are excerpts from his interviews with: George […]

Democracies must fight for freedom, Nobel laureate Machado says

OSLO, NORWAY (By Reuters, 10.Dec.2025, Words: 827) — Democracies must be prepared to fight for freedom in order to survive, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado said on Wednesday, in a speech delivered by her daughter during a ceremony the Venezuelan opposition leader could not attend. The 58-year-old engineer had […]

Fact sheet: The Nobel Peace Prize, Maria Corina Machado [pdf download: The Noble lecture]

OSLO, NORWAY (By The Noble Foundation, 10.Dec.2025, Words: 311) — In 2025, The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to expelled Venezuelan law maker and former presidential candidate Maria Corina Machado “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and […]

Venezuela’s Machado applauds Trump’s decision to end Chevron’s license to operate

PANAMA CITY, PANAMA (Piero Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 31.May.2025, Words: 428) — Vente Venezuela national coordinator and opposition leader María Corina Machado thanked US president Donald Trump for what she labelled as his “firm commitment to freedom and democracy in Venezuela.” Machado’s comments came just days after Chevron Corporation‘s license to operate […]

A Month After Venezuela’s Contested Election, the Opposition Fights On

(The Washington Post, 27.Aug.2024) — A month ago, Venezuela’s opposition nurtured a cautious hope. A national election seemed to present a genuine chance to oust the entrenched autocratic regime of President Nicolás Maduro. Even as Maduro and his allies stacked the odds against their opponents, disqualifying top candidates and wielding the […]

Election Results in Venezuela, Possible Routes Forward

(Rystad, 29.Jul.2024) —While the election in Venezuela may be over, the future is still not certain. There was a forgone conclusion that the incumbent government of President Nicolas Maduro may try to perpetrate some sort of electoral fraud to maintain power, and it certainly seems as though that has been […]

Polls Open in Venezuelan Election That Could Lead to Seismic Shift

(AP, 27.Jul.2024) — Venezuelans are voting Sunday in a presidential election whose outcome will either lead to a seismic shift in politics or extend by six more years the policies that caused the world’s worst peacetime economic collapse. Whether it is President Nicolás Maduro who is chosen, or his main opponent, retired […]

Broken Promises: US Oil Sanctions and Venezuela

(Rystad Energy, 29.Apr.2024) — For President Joe Biden, the situation in Venezuela remains a fly in the ointment, weighing on the administration’s energy and foreign policy. President Nicolas Maduro has seemingly remained impervious to either the carrot or stick handed out by the US and looks set to carry out […]

Maria Corina Machado faces deadline in race against Maduro

(AP, 16.Mar.2024, Words: 1,120) — It’s her choice — but one on which the hopes of millions of Venezuelans fighting to restore their democracy depends. Barred from running for office, opposition leader María Corina Machado is facing pressure from foreign leaders and fellow government opponents to abandon her dead-end presidential […]

Petroleum sanctions in Venezuela [PDF download]

CARACAS, VENEZUELA (Energy Analytics Institute, 28.Jan.2024) — If the US experiences the return of Donald Trump as president, or if in Venezuela Maria Corina Machado’s handpicked successor wins, or both, no one is sure what will happen. So international oil companies (IOCs) will likely sit tight and not invest but […]

Venezuela Court Disqualifies Leading Opposition Candidate

(Al Jazeera, 27.Jan.2024) — Venezuela’s Supreme Justice Tribunal has upheld a ban which prevents presidential candidate Maria Corina Machado from holding office, upending the opposition’s plans for elections planned for later this year. Machado, a former lawmaker, won the opposition’s independently run presidential primary last October with more than 90 […]

Venezuela Issues Arrest Warrants for Opposition Staffers for Treason

(Reuters, 6.Dec.2023) — Venezuela’s attorney general on Wednesday said there are arrest warrants for three people involved in the campaign of opposition presidential nominee Maria Corina Machado, for crimes including treason. A lawyer for Machado’s Vente Venezuela party said the three people have always acted correctly. The warrants for Henry […]

Corina Machado says Venezuela to end socialism: El Nacional

HOUSTON, TEXAS (Aaron Simonsky, Energy Analytics Institute, 24.Nov.2023, Words: 156) — Vente Venezuela national coordinator and opposition leader María Corina Machado said the next president of the Opec country would be picked by its citizens, according to the daily newspaper El Nacional. “The disqualification doesn’t stop anyone,” the newspaper reported […]

FACTBOX: Top Candidates in Venezuela’s Opposition Primary

(Reuters, 19.Oct.2023) — Voters in Venezuela will on Sunday choose a unity candidate from among 10 hopefuls to represent the country’s opposition in 2024 presidential elections, when President Nicolas Maduro is expected to seek re-election. The primary is the first held by Venezuela’s opposition in over a decade. Favorite Maria Corina Machado is […]

Machado would restructure debt into single bond

CARACAS, VENEZUELA (Bloomberg, 18.Jul.2023, Words: 218) — Opposition frontrunner María Corina Machado said she would seek to roll Venezuela’s massive debt pile into a single bond as part of her plan to overhaul the country’s economy. Speaking after a video presentation to economists and investors in New York on Tuesday, Machado said […]

María Corina Machado Talks About Democratic Regression

(Fundación Libertad y Desarrollo, 9.Aug.2021) — The president of Fundación Libertad y Desarrollo, Dionisio Gutiérrez, spoke with the leader of the Venezuelan opposition and National Coordinator of Vente Venezuela, María Corina Machado, about the fight for democratic, liberal and republican values in the region. On the decline of liberal democracies […]

Venezuela’s Parliamentary Election: Change Expected

(Energy Analytics Institute, 6.Dec.2020) — Venezuela’s National Assembly leader and Interim President Juan Guaido could be coming to the end of his short two-year reign this 6 December 2020 as the country its holds parliamentary election and selects a new leader to preside over the institution. Decisions by numerous factions […]

Venezuelan Opposition Politician Backs Elections

(Wall Street Journal, 2.Sep.2020) — A prominent Venezuelan opposition figure on Wednesday said he is supporting congressional elections in December that Juan Guaidó, the opposition leader backed by the U.S., has pledged to boycott. The decision by Henrique Capriles to support the elections is a major fissure in a movement […]

Jusepin Oil Region in Venezuela: 45 Seconds of Fame

(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 17.Aug.2018) – Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado tours the Jusepin petroleum region in Venezuela. https://twitter.com/i/status/1030477377988710401 Jusepin is just one of many petroleum-rich areas in Venezuela, the country with the world’s largest oil reserves. ***

Machado Says PDVSA Converted into ‘Junk’

(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 25.Jul.2018) – PDVSA has been converted into ‘junk or scraps’ by the administration of the current Venezuelan president. That’s according to statements from Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado. Her statements were made during a meeting with local media and posted to her twitter account […]

Machado Says Venezuela “Show Can’t Go On”

(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 13.Jul.2018) – Opposition leader María Corina Machado said the “show can’t go on” during a video broadcast from Punto Fijo. The leader’s video in reaction to a recent oil spill at PDVSA that the state oil company blamed on workers. El “show” NO PUEDE continuar.Mi […]