Maria Corina Machado has walked highways, sought shelter in supporters’ homes and seen her closest collaborators detained and persecuted as she crisscrossed Venezuela ahead of the upcoming presidential election.
Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado rides atop a truck during a closing election campaign rally of presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, July 25, 2024. The presidential election is set for July 28. . She has held the calloused hands of crying men, worn dozens of gifted rosaries and listened to the pleas of the young and old while crisscrossing Venezuela.and a symbol of hope, courage and perseverance for millions of Venezuelans.
The industrial engineer and daughter of a steel magnate began challenging the ruling party in 2004, when the non-governmental organization she co-founded, Súmate, promoted a referendum to recall then-President Hugo Chávez. The initiative failed, and Machado and other Súmate executives were charged with conspiracy.
Machado, a 56-year-old mother of three, revealed her presidential aspirations two years later. She came third in the race to be the presidential candidate for the Democratic Unity Roundtable. The former governor of the northern state of Miranda, Henrique Capriles, represented the opposition coalition but lost to Chávez.
Days after she formally entered the Unitary Platform opposition coalition's primary, the Comptroller General's Office announced she was banned from running for office for 15 years, and the country's top court affirmed that decision in January.
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