""Finally, we're seeing in this administration, with the leadership of President Trump, the division and the targeting to cut those inflows from coming into the regime. So that's why we're seeing this unique opportunity very close, very close to the inner future in terms of a peaceful transition to democracy once the regime finally realizes that it's time, it's over.""
""It was Nicholas Maduro who started this war, and he has been offered all along this way since we won by landslide, a presidential election last year, he has been offered a negotiated transition; it has been Maduro, who has refused and has stayed in power through the most brutal repression campaign ... he knows the consequences, and he has been warned to stop this.""
María Corina Machado, Venezuelan opposition leader and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner, characterizes Nicolás Maduro's government as a narco-terrorist structure. Machado asserts that dismantling the regime requires cutting inflows from drug trafficking, arms smuggling and human smuggling. She credits the Trump administration's targeting and division efforts against those inflows with creating a close, unique opportunity for a peaceful transition to democracy if the regime recognizes it is finished. A U.S. guided-missile destroyer docked in Trinidad and Tobago as military pressure increased. Maduro denounced the move as an attempt to fabricate a new eternal war.
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