Machado Says in Close Talks With US Over Return to Venezuela

Maria Corina Machado during a news conference in Madrid, on April 18.Photographer: Claudia Paparelli/Bloomberg

Venezuela’s main opposition leader María Corina Machado said she’s “coordinating” her return to the country with the US, without giving a date.

Machado, speaking at a press conference in Madrid on Saturday, said she’s in “permanent” contact with officials in the Trump administration and “trusts” the phased process Washington is pushing in her home country.