Nobel Peace Prize Winner: María Corina Machado on Defeating Maduro, Socialism & Freeing Venezuela

Maria Karina Machado, welcome to the all-in interview and thank you for being here with me today. And congratulations on winning the Nobel Peace Prize two weeks ago. Thank you very much, David. It's my pleasure. Today you are in hiding.

In October of 2023, you won the presidential primary election in Venezuela. Last March you were disqualified from running in the general election. You appointed ultimately a surrogate Edmundo Gonzalez. After the vote for the general election for the presidency, your party presented evidence that claimed that you had won 69.5% of the votes while Maduro, through the National Electoral Council, declared that he was the winner with 51% of the votes. This is the recap of a very long

story of the Maduro regime and prior to that the Chavez regime and its effect on the people of Venezuela, which you have tried to bring to light on the global stage. I was hoping to frame up the story for our audience who may not know the history of Venezuela very well by talking a little bit about the background of the country and how your childhood and your youth brought you to the stage that you're on today. And just to provide a little bit of background and forgive me for my lengthy introduction, but I think it's important for folks to understand that the discovery of oil in Venezuela in 1914 began an economic boom that really kicked off in 1922. Today Venezuela has proven oil reserves of 300 billion barrels, the number one proven oil reserve in the world.

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