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Politics● ElevatedOct 27 · Oct 27, 2026, 6:01 PM

Rubio responds to Machado return: Can’t ‘street-protest your way into a democracy’

GlobeAlert Desk · curated from The Hill · South America

Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a warning to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado on Monday, without explicitly naming her after the exiled Nobel Peace Prize winner returned to her home country. “You’re not going to street-protest your way into a democracy,” Rubio told reporters, according to Axios. He also praised her return, saying…

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