The Nobel laureate returned to Caracas as Venezuelans demand elections while she remained sidelined from negotiations over the country’s democratic transition.

Nobel Peach Prize winner and popular Venezuelan political opposition figure Maria Corina Machado has returned from nearly a year in exile. She was greeted by thousands of cheering supporters in Caracas.

Machado took a private plane from Panama to Colombia and then crossed overland to Venezuela, two people with knowledge of the matter said.

Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado has said she returned to her home country after nearly a year in exile.

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado announced on Sunday that she has returned to her homeland following almost a year in exile, after covertly leaving Venezuela in late 2025 to receive…