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Maria Corina Machado: Can Venezuela's fortunes change?

Sarah Montague speaks to Maria Corina Machado, a Venezuelan opposition politician who has been banned from running in the country’s presidential elections this weekend.

Sarah Montague speaks to Venezuelan opposition politician Maria Corina Machado. Banned from running in the country’s presidential elections this weekend, she’s still a leading figure in the movement trying to unseat socialist authoritarian Nicolas Maduro. With the country’s economy in ruins and more than a quarter of the population having fled, could the next few days change the fortunes of this oil-rich but very troubled nation?

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Wed 24 Jul 202421:06GMT
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