Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado returns to Venezuela Nobel Peace Prize winner and Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corrina Machado said she has returned to Venezuela. "I'm here. with you," she tweeted. Journalist Tony Franhy of Awad published photographs of Machado from a Sunday mass at a temple in Lara state. Machado's return was also announced by her representative David Smolensky and former Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez. "Today is a very important day for the people of Venezuela. With her, our sovereign voice returns to lead this process and direct it in the right direction! Very soon I will be with you and her so that our country can truly move towards freedom. You know: we're going all the way," Gonzalez wrote. Photo: Od Andersen / AFP.