Maria Corina Machado Archives - Editores LatinPetroleum

Marco Rubio comments on María Corina Machado’s return to Venezuela

ATLANTA, GEORGIA (By Chad Archey, Energy Analytics Institute, 25.OCt.2026, Words: 156) — Conditions allowing for the safe return of opposition leader María Corina Machado to Venezuela is the direct result of […]

María Corina Machado returns to Venezuela

ATLANTA, GEORGIA (By Chad Archey, Energy Analytics Institute, 25.Oct.2026, Words: 92) — María Corina Machado has returned to Venezuela. Her first public appearance was at the Santa Rosa Church in Barquisimeto. […]

Machado excluded from talks in Caracas between Chavistas and opposition

CARACAS, VENEZUELA (By Piero Stewart, Editores Latin Petroleum, 19.Oct.2026, Words: 138) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado told The New York Times she was excluded by the US administration from […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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., […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]