"Maduro will leave power, whether there is a negotiation or not. We would like it to be through a negotiation, she added, dismissing fears that a change of regime could plunge Venezuela into violence similar to the civil wars in Libya and Syria or the conflict in Afghanistan. These [comparisons] are utterly unfounded because the situation [in Venezuela] is completely different. We have a well-knit society without religious, racial, regional, socio-political divisions, she told reporters from a small number of outlets including the Guardian."
"Machado, a 58-year-old former congresswoman from Caracas, has spent almost half of her life battling the Chavista political movement, which Maduro inherited from Hugo Chavez after his death in 2013. In the years after Maduro took power, plummeting oil prices and economic mismanagement and corruption plunged Venezuela into economic chaos, with US sanctions later compounding the crisis. More than eight million citizens fled overseas an exodus larger than the one generated by Syria's civil war."
Maria Corina Machado arrived in Oslo after slipping out of Venezuela by boat following nearly a year in hiding. Machado received the Nobel peace prize two days earlier and expressed confidence that a political transition away from Nicolás Maduro is irreversible. Machado rejected comparisons of Venezuela to Syria, Libya or Afghanistan, arguing Venezuelan society lacks deep religious, racial, regional or socio-political divisions and remains cohesive. Machado said Maduro and senior regime figures still have time to negotiate a peaceful handover, but asserted Maduro will leave power whether negotiated or not. Venezuela suffered economic collapse from falling oil prices, mismanagement, corruption and US sanctions, prompting an exodus of more than eight million citizens.
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