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Maria Corina Machado, victor of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, who has waged a more-than-two-decade-long run for the restoration of ideology successful Venezuela, has hailed India arsenic a "great democracy" and an "example" for different countries.
In an interrogation to Times Now from an undisclosed determination (she has been successful hiding for 15 months), Machado said India could beryllium a "great ally" with whom Venezuela tin fortify ties connected aggregate fronts erstwhile a peaceful modulation to ideology is achieved. Machado besides said she hoped to talk to PM Modi and "host him successful a escaped Venezuela precise soon."About India's spot successful the world, Machado said, "India has been an illustration for galore countries, for galore generations, of being the largest ideology successful the portion and successful the world.
This is huge. And you besides person a work to instrumentality bully attraction of it due to the fact that truthful galore people, countries astir the satellite look up to you. Democracies tin ever beryllium strengthened and should ne'er beryllium taken for granted.""I respect India with each my heart," Machado said. "My girl was determination conscionable a mates of months ago, but I've ne'er been to India. She loves your country. I person galore friends, Venezuelan friends that unrecorded there.
And of course, I travel Indian politics." Machado said she was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi's non-violent conflict for freedom. "Being peaceful is not weakness and Gandhi showed the full humanity what that meant.
""We request India's dependable arsenic a large democracy, to talk retired for the rights of the Venezuelan radical and fashionable sovereignty. I besides privation to ideate erstwhile Venezuela moves up and we dismantle each the transgression socialist structures, that person brought truthful overmuch symptom and devastation, determination volition beryllium large opportunities for Indian companies to put not lone successful energy, but besides successful infrastructure and telecom." Machado spoke astatine magnitude astir the 2024 Presidential elections, a verdict she alleged was stolen by the Venezuelan govt nether Nicholas Maduro contempt overwhelming documentary grounds of the opposition's victory.Machado recalled, "On July 28, 2024, we won a statesmanlike predetermination by a landslide. I had been antecedently elected arsenic the superior victor to beryllium the absorption candidate. I won with 93% of the votes, but the authorities banned maine from moving arsenic a candidate.
So, a precise courageous and honorable man, a vocation diplomat, accepted this immense work and honour. We won with 70% of the ballot and we were capable to beryllium it. We gathered 85% of the archetypal tally sheets.
We digitised them. Once we won, we offered Maduro the anticipation of a negotiated modulation successful which we offered guarantees. But helium refused and unleashed the worst repression question we've seen successful our history. Thousands of guiltless Venezuelans person disappeared.
Children and women were abused, tortured, adjacent killed."Machado besides described US President Trump arsenic a "main ally" successful the combat for ideology successful Venezuela. "The full satellite knows the benignant of criminals these individuals (Maduro and his colleagues) are, but present with steadfast enactment connected behalf of the US, and the Trump administration, and this conjugation that has been gathering with countries successful Latin America, successful the Caribbean, successful Europe, I anticipation successful Asia arsenic well, Maduro has started to recognize that his clip is over, and that his champion enactment is to judge the presumption of a negotiated modulation with guarantees that we person offered.
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