María Corina Machado’s party stakes its strategy on the uncertain return of its leader

Vente Venezuela, the party founded by María Corina Machado, is preparing again for the imminent return of its leader despite delays, skepticism, and uncertainty. Decisions within the organization are being made on the assumption of her return. Machado was unable to enter the country from Panama last week (the reasons are still unclear), but her definitive arrival in Venezuela, says Henry Alviarez, the party’s secretary of organization, “is a matter of days. ” Machado’s party is waiting on a plane, a boat, or a car to cross the border. The country’s main opposition party has organized its rebuilding, its mobilizations, and its messaging around the return of its leader, announced repeatedly as imminent and frustrated for the seventh time last week in Panama.