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María Corina Machado, Venezuelan opposition leader: Our fight for freedom is a fight for peace

María Corina Machado, Venezuelan opposition leader: Our fight for freedom is a fight for peace

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Lucy Hockings speaks to María Corina Machado about the fight for democracy in Venezuela

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Lucy Hockings speaks to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina
Machado about the fight for democracy in the South American
country. She’s been in hiding since last year’s presidential
election in Venezuela, when incumbent Nicolás Maduro declared
victory in a contest that was widely dismissed on the
international stage as rigged, sparking widespread protests.

Around 2,000 people were arrested in the crackdown which
followed, among them many members of her opposition coalition.
Machado, who had managed to unite the bitterly divided opposition
ahead of the election, went into hiding for fear of arrest. She
has however continued to give interviews and uploaded videos to
social media urging her followers not to give up.

The Nobel Institute awarded Machado the 2025 Peace prize for “her
struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from
dictatorship to democracy" in Venezuela. She defied a travel ban
to reach Oslo, with Nobel Committee chair Jørgen Watne Frydnes
describing her journey as "a situation of extreme danger". The
Interview brings you conversations with people shaping our world,
from all over the world. The best interviews from the BBC. You
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Presenter: Lucy Hockings Producer: Dylan Arzoni, Claire Noble and
Ben Cooper Editors: Justine Lang and Nick Holland

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(Image: María Corina Machado. Photo by Ole
Berg-Rusten/EPA/Shutterstock)