"Machado described Maduro's system not as a normal dictatorship but as "a criminal structure, a narco terrorist structure" that was inflicting "huge harm and bringing huge pain to our people" and "destabilizing the whole western hemisphere." The only way to dismantle it, she argued, was "to cut the inflows that come from criminal activities such as drug trafficking, gold smuggling, arms smuggling, even human trafficking,""
"Instead, he is signaling a U.S.-managed transitional arrangement that may even work with Chavista successors to deposed leader Nicolás Maduro and focuses heavily on U.S. control of Venezuelan oil. But the democratic, Venezuelan‑led transition she imagined has been replaced-at least for now-by Trump's assertion that the United States will "run" Venezuela and by Washington's choice of a Maduro loyalist as its preferred partner."
U.S. signals now favor a U.S.-managed transitional arrangement in Venezuela that may cooperate with Chavista successors and emphasizes U.S. control of Venezuelan oil. María Corina Machado warned that Maduro's system operates as a criminal, narco-terrorist structure inflicting massive harm and destabilizing the hemisphere. Machado argued that dismantling the regime requires cutting illicit inflows from drug trafficking, gold smuggling, arms smuggling and human trafficking and urged use of law enforcement and full transparency. Machado praised Trump's stated clarity on cutting those inflows, but the envisioned Venezuelan-led, law-based transition has been sidelined by current U.S. choices.
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