letter published by the Wall Street Journal. , external<\/a>It was titled: I Can Prove Maduro Got Trounced.<\/p>\n“I am writing this from hiding, fearing for my life, my freedom, and that of my fellow countrymen from the dictatorship led by Nicol\u00e1s Maduro,” she wrote.<\/p>\n
In the letter, she says she has proof that Nicol\u00e1s Maduro didn’t win the election, and said it was “unthinkable” he would concede.<\/p>\n
Machado then details steps Maduro’s government took, such as barring her from running and disqualifying her replacement. <\/p>\n
But, she says they didn’t expect that the people “are like a tidal wave” and fought back. “Minutes after returns began coming in, we confirmed that our victory was overwhelming.”<\/p>\n
She explains that when protests broke out, most of her team went into hiding, and states: “I could be captured as I write these words.”<\/p>\n
She was seen briefly at a protest in January, where the government arrested her for a short time and then released her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘I am writing this from hiding’published at 10:44 BST 10:44 BST Image source, AFP Mar\u00eda Corina Machado has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-202700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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