{"id":2521104,"date":"2025-12-14T15:48:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T20:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/machado-says-venezuelan-military-members-reaching-out-to-opposition-they-are-scared\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T15:49:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T20:49:37","slug":"machado-says-venezuelan-military-members-reaching-out-to-opposition-they-are-scared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/machado-says-venezuelan-military-members-reaching-out-to-opposition-they-are-scared\/","title":{"rendered":"Machado says Venezuelan military members reaching out to opposition: &#8216;They are scared&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmachado-says-venezuelan-military-members-reaching-out-to-opposition-they-are-scared%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2521104&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>venezuelan opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado, this year&#8217;s Nobel Peace Prize laureate, stated that President nicol\u00e1s Maduro&#8217;s government is &#8220;weaker than ever.&#8221; Speaking from Oslo, Norway, where she received the prize after escaping Venezuela, Machado highlighted growing divisions within Venezuela&#8217;s armed forces and police, with some military members secretly reaching out to the opposition due to fear of persecution. She praised the Trump governance&#8217;s efforts to pressure Maduro&#8217;s regime, including sanctions against Maduro&#8217;s family, the seizure of an oil tanker linked to illicit oil shipments, and actions against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/police-seize-enough-opioids-to-kill-50-million-people-two-arrested\/\" title=\"Police Seize Enough Opioids To Kill 50 Million People, Two Arrested\">suspected drug trafficking<\/a>. Machado emphasized that the current moment represents the best chance for Venezuela to move toward democracy. U.S. Senator Mark Warner also commended Machado as a hero deserving of the Nobel Prize.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Machado says Venezuelan military members reaching out to opposition: &lsquo;They are scared&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2443386\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/venezuela\/\">Venezuela<\/a>&lsquo;s opposition leader Mar&iacute;a Corina Machado said she believes Venezuelan President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/nicolas-maduro\/\">Nicol&aacute;s Maduro<\/a>&lsquo;s government is &ldquo;weaker than ever,&rdquo; touting the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/trump-administration\/\">Trump administration<\/a>&lsquo;s strategy with the South American country.<\/p>\n<p>Machado, this year&rsquo;s Nobel Peace Prize recipient, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3914467\/nobel-peace-prize-winner-machado-escapes-venezuela\/\">escaped<\/a> from her home country to Oslo, Norway, where the prize ceremony was held on Wednesday. Her award comes as President Donald Trump has been increasing pressure on Maduro&rsquo;s regime by striking down <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >suspected drug-trafficking boats<\/a> in the Caribbean throughout the fall, seizing an <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/3913868\/us-seized-oil-tanker-off-venezuelan-coast-trump\/\">oil tanker<\/a> off the Venezuelan coast, and placing <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/economy\/3915133\/treasury-sanctions-maduro-family-venezuelan-shipping-companies\/\">sanctions<\/a> on his extended family.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3917299\/netanyahu-australia-albanese-antisemitism-shooting\/\">Netanyahu says he warned Australia of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fifteen-dead-after-gunmen-open-fire-on-jewish-event-in-australia\/\" title=\"Fifteen dead after ... on Jewish event in Australia\">policies fueling &#8216;antisemitic fire&#8217; months<\/a> before shooting<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3917234\/bondi-beach-australia-shooting-hanukkah\/\">Fifteen dead after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/multiple-gunmen-open-fire-on-high-school-football-players-in-philadelphia\/\" title=\"Multiple Gunmen Open Fire on High School Football Players in Philadelphia\">gunmen open fire<\/a> on Jewish event in Australia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3917038\/israel-kills-top-hamas-commander\/\">Israel kills top Hamas commander hours after terrorists attacked Israeli soldiers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3917350\/rand-paul-redistricting-violence\/\">RAND PAUL WARNS MID-DECADE REDISTRICTING COULD FOMENT &lsquo;MORE VIOLENCE&rsquo; IN US<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Maduro is weaker than ever. The armed forces, police are certainly divided and fractured, and our country is united, cohesive, and we finally have the administration, in this case, President Trump, with a clear strategy that truly represents a credible threat for the regime,&rdquo; Machado said. &ldquo;If we had ever had a chance to finally move ahead into towards democracy in our country, it&rsquo;s today.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Machado made the comments during an appearance on CBS&rsquo;s <em>Face the Nation<\/em> on Sunday morning. She said members of the military are fearful of persecution.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve seen more and more members of the military finding ways to connect with us, to send messages to show that they are feeling the same of what the rest of the country is feeling,&rdquo; Machado said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3916245\/bolivia-fernando-aramayo-arms-are-open-us-trump-strategy-south-america\/\">BOLIVIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS &lsquo;ARMS ARE OPEN&rsquo; TO US AND APPROVES OF TRUMP STRATEGY IN SOUTH AMERICA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), who also appeared on the Sunday morning program, called Machado a &ldquo;hero&rdquo; who &ldquo;deserves to win the Nobel Prize.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Following the United States&rsquo;s Wednesday seizure of an oil tanker that Attorney General <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/national-security\/3914140\/pam-bondi-seized-tanker-transporting-sanctioned-oil-venezuela-iran\/\">Pam Bondi <\/a>said was shipping oil from Venezuela and Iran as part of &ldquo;an illicit oil shipping network,&rdquo; the U.S. followed up with sanctions aimed at Venezuela. The Treasury Department announced <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/economy\/3915133\/treasury-sanctions-maduro-family-venezuelan-shipping-companies\/\">sanctions<\/a> against six companies shipping Venezuelan oil and several of Maduro&rsquo;s family members.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Machado: Venezuelan military contacts opposition, &#8216;They&#8217;re scared<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3976,"featured_media":2521105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AP25283332522572.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[19794,4505,3760,5894,50813],"class_list":["post-2521104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-machado","tag-military","tag-opposition","tag-politics","tag-venezuela-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AP25283332522572.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2521104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2521108,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521104\/revisions\/2521108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2521105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2521104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2521104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2521104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}