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Maria Corina Machado Should Return to Venezuela ASAP

If she is arrested, she will force Trump to side with democracy. And if she is not detained, she will once again place herself at center stage.

By Andres Oppenheimer (Confidencial)

HAVANA TIMES – At the start of the United States and Israel’s war against Iran, I ventured to predict in this column that the biggest winner of this conflict would be Venezuela’s interim dictator, Delcy Rodriguez. A new economic study forecasting major growth for Venezuela’s economy this year (2026) convinces me even more that I was right.

The study by well-known economist Asdrúbal Oliveros projects that Venezuela’s economy will grow by 12%, thanks to the lifting of US oil sanctions and rising oil prices since the start of the war with Iran.

“The Venezuelan economy is showing signs of remarkable progress,” Oliveros wrote in AmericasQuarterly.org. “Production has risen to more than 1 million barrels per day and is expected to continue growing in the coming months.”

Although the growth projected by Oliveros would only begin to reverse an economic collapse of more than 20 years, Venezuela would become one of the fastest-growing economies in Latin America. The region as a whole will grow only 2.3% this year, according to the World Bank.

The Venezuelan........

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