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It remained unclear what exactly happened after Machado bid farewell to hundreds of supporters, hopped on a motorcycle and raced with her security convoy down a main Caracas avenue. At 3:21 p.m. local time, Machado’s press team said in a social media post that security forces “violently intercepted” her convoy. Her aides later told The Associated Press that she had been detained, and international condemnation poured in from leaders in Latin America and beyond, demanding her release. But about an hour later, a proof-of-life, 20-second video of Machado emerged online...

Before Maria Corina Machado was arrested by Nicolas Maduro’s regime in Venezuela Thursday, her reemergence in public offered a powerful reminder of the opposition campaign she led this past summer. Her supporters handed her rosaries and shouted chants of "liberty” as she climbed to the top of a truck at an anti-Maduro rally and waved the nation’s flag. It had been more than four months since Machado went into hiding following Maduro’s contested win in the July 28 election. Minutes later, there was a harsh snap back to reality when...

Venezuela’s popular opposition leader, María Corina Machado, was freed on Thursday afternoon after a brief detention by adversaries during an antigovernment protest in Caracas on Thursday, according to a statement on X by a political aide. Ms. Machado was “violently intercepted as she left the gathering,” her party said on X. “Regime troops shot at the motorcycles that were transporting her.” The country’s autocrat, Nicolás Maduro, is set to be sworn in for a third term as president on Friday. Ms. Machado had been living in hiding in Venezuela amid...

Venezuela opposition leader María Corina Machado was freed after a brief detention in which she was forced to record videos, her party’s office said on X.

Machado will address the situation in the next few hours, the office said. Opposition representatives said she had been detained by security forces after leaving a protest against the regime of President Nicolás Maduro, who plans to be sworn in for a third term on Friday despite evidence that he stole last year’s election.

Maria Corina Machado was arrested while leaving a protest march, local media and party officials report. The opposition is back on the streets on the eve of Nicolas Maduro being sworn in for a third term. Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado's team and Venezuelan media report that Machado was arrested in Caracas on Thursday. Sought for arrest and largely in hiding, she had made her first public appearance in months in Caracas, to lead a protest against President Nicolas Maduro being sworn in for a third term. The opposition said...

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado on Thursday left her hideout and reappeared in public for the first time in months, risking arrest as anti-government protesters made a last-ditch attempt to block President Nicolas Maduro from clinging to power. "They wanted us to fight each other, but Venezuela is united," Machado, waving a Venezuelan flag, shouted to a few hundred protesters from atop a truck in the capital. "We are not afraid! We are not afraid!" shouted demonstrators who sang the Venezuelan national anthem to herald Machado's brave defiance of...

Machado, Venezuela’s “iron lady” who led the opposition’s presidential campaign and its effort to provide evidence of a victory in the July 28 election, had emerged in public for the first time in months on the eve of Maduro’s inauguration to lead protesters in rejecting Maduro’s increasingly authoritarian rule. She stood over a sea of people in Caracas as they chanted: “We are not afraid!” “All of the strength that we’ve built and that grows every day prepares us to finish this final phase,” Machado said, speaking just a few...