Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado returns to the country On Sunday, October 25, Machado attended mass at a shrine in the state of Lara. "I'm here. with you," she wrote on social media. Machado secretly left Venezuela in December 2025, under Nicolás Maduro. In January 2026, the US military captured Maduro in Caracas, and since then the country has been run by Acting President Delsea Rodriguez.