Venezuela's Machado: "I will be president when the time comes"

Venezuelan absorption person María Corina Machado told CBS News she volition 1 time beryllium president arsenic she pressed for a modulation to electoral ideology aft Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's ouster.

"I volition beryllium president erstwhile the clip comes," she told "Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan. "But it doesn't matter. That should beryllium decided successful elections by the Venezuelan people."

Machado was banned from moving against Maduro successful Venezuela's past elections successful 2024, but she threw her enactment down erstwhile diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia. The U.S. and overmuch of the planetary assemblage recognized González Urrutia arsenic the election's morganatic winner, but Maduro remained successful powerfulness amid widespread allegations that the results were rigged.

Machado said she was prevented from moving successful 2024 "because Maduro was acrophobic [of] moving against me, and helium thought Edmundo was not a threat, due to the fact that cipher knew who helium was."

"And successful little than 3 months, we managed to [get] the full state supporting him, due to the fact that this is [a] substance of freedom," added Machado.

It's not wide erstwhile Venezuela mightiness clasp its adjacent election. The state is inactive tally by remnants of Maduro's government, including interim President Delcy Rodriguez, adjacent arsenic Maduro sits successful a New York jailhouse awaiting cause charges. President Trump told reporters past week the existent enactment of Venezuela has "been moving with america truthful well."

Mr. Trump was besides initially dismissive of the thought of Machado taking power, saying hours aft Maduro's capture, "she's a precise bully woman, but she doesn't person the respect."

Less than 2 weeks later, Machado gave her Nobel Peace Prize medallion to Mr. Trump successful designation of what she called his "historic" enactment of removing Maduro from power. 

Mr. Trump aboriginal said of Machado: "Maybe we tin get her progressive successful immoderate way."

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Watch much of Margaret Brennan's interrogation with Venezuelan absorption person María Corina Machado connected "Face the Nation" connected Sunday, Feb. 1. The afloat interrogation volition tally connected CBSNews.com and connected the "Face the Nation" YouTube channel.