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EXCLUSIVE: As a BRUTAL crackdown erupts across Venezuela, hunted opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has declared she will RETURN to the warzone “as soon as possible,” vowing to confront the VIOLENT regime that has unleashed state terror on its own people following the stunning capture of tyrant Nicolás Maduro.
In a BOMBSHELL interview, Machado revealed the socialist dictatorship is now rounding up and DETAINING journalists and ANY citizen suspected of supporting the U.S. operation that snatched Maduro from his palace. “What we’re seeing right now in the last 24 hours is REALLY ALARMING,” she warned, describing a chilling emergency decree ordering a nationwide manhunt for “traitors.”
This is NOT a transition to freedom—it is a DESCENT INTO CHAOS. With Maduro’s hardline deputy, the notorious Delcy Rodríguez, now installed as interim president, experts fear a new era of PERSECUTION backed by Venezuela’s allies: Russia, China, and Iran. Machado branded Rodríguez a chief architect of “torture, persecution, corruption, narco trafficking,” accusing her of steering the nation toward a COMPLETE DICTATORSHIP.
The STARK question now facing the world: Did America’s heroic capture of a monster simply unleash a MORE RUTHLESS one in its place? As armed patrols stalk the streets of Caracas and political dissidents vanish into darkness, the promised liberation has mutated into a FRIGHTENING new oppression. Machado’s defiant pledge to return is a gamble with her life—and exposes the HARSH TRUTH that the battle for Venezuela has only just begun, a battle the West may already be LOSING. The so-called “capture of the century” may have ignited a firestorm we cannot control, proving that in the shadow of one fallen dictator, a dozen more are always waiting to rise.




