Thousands of Venezuelans marched through the streets of Caracas and other cities on Thursday against the nation’s socialist regime to demand presidential elections and the safe return of anti-socialist opposition leader María Corina Machado to the country.
\n\nThursday’s round of protests in Venezuela were organized by Vente Venezuela, the only mainstream center-right party in the country and an organization whose members suffered an extensive persecution campaign during the rule of deposed socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro. Vente is led by Machado, who has found herself unable to return to her country after the administration of President Donald Trump helped her escape from the country in December 2025 to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway.
\n\nThe Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional reported that the peaceful protest in Caracas began in the afternoon hours of Thursday near the Central University of Venezuela. Politicians, students, relatives of political prisoners, and civilians marched through toward Plaza Venezuela to demand that Venezuelan regime authorities establish an electoral timetable for a new presidential election in the country, in addition to allowing the safe return of Machado to her country, and the release of all remaining political prisoners.
\n\nAccording to Infobae, Thursday’s protest unfolded with a “notably…
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