On the road with the woman seeking to oust the authoritarian president
Venezuela’s opposition leader María Corina Machado has faced numerous obstacles in her campaign to unseat long-ruling authoritarian president Nicolás Maduro. The latest ones were long, verdant and freshly cut. A small group of indigenous protesters had hacked branches off roadside trees and heaped them across the main highway leading to the city of Maracaibo, shortly before Machado’s motorcade was due to pass on the way to an opposition rally on Tuesday evening.
Later that evening, after a chaotic joint news conference, Machado and González took to the streets of Maracaibo in an open-topped truck. Tens of thousands of people chanted “Freedom, freedom! The government is going to fall!” and sounded a deafening cacophony of vuvuzelas, car horns and revved motorbike engines as the opposition duo inched past, waving.
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