Washington buzzed as Maria Corina Machado, the Venezuelan firebrand who just bestowed her Nobel Peace Prize upon Donald Trump, laid bare the heart-stopping drama of her sea dash from Maduro’s Venezuela. During a Heritage Foundation briefing, her account gripped reporters with raw intensity.
En route, a brutal assault of waves taller than six feet smashed into the boat, leaving Machado bloodied. Gale-force winds rattled the hull while electronics conspired against them – GPS lost, satellite links severed, Starlink unreliable – plunging the group into hours-long oceanic limbo.
“This was no coincidence; it was miraculous,” she proclaimed, guarding details for her team’s sake pending reduced regime threats. The story spotlights the life-or-death gambles opposition figures endure.
Machado reframed U.S. intervention as targeting criminal cartels, not individuals, voicing the aspirations of millions in resistance. She expressed profound trust in Trump’s leadership and Americans for democracy, justice, and Venezuelan sovereignty.
Tethering her nation’s fate to U.S. security, she observed enhanced safety post-January 3 via Venezuelan steadiness and growth. Transition steps prioritize tyranny’s end: constitutional respect to free detainees, closing horror chambers, journalist safeguards, rapid missing-persons probes, and migration demilitarization.
“Freedom’s promise will repatriate talent,” she forecasted. In weaving personal peril with policy imperatives, Machado’s revelations fuel momentum for Venezuela’s democratic dawn.