Dutch Ambassador blocks María Corina Machado's return to Venezuela via Curaçao after US policy confusion - while Machado was already flying

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Dutch Ambassador blocks María Corina Machado's return to Venezuela via Curaçao after US policy confusion - while Machado was already flying
María Corina Machado / photo: CMC

A last-minute Dutch intervention forced Venezuela’s most prominent opposition figure to turn back mid-flight. New revelations from Washington suggest the episode was triggered by confusion inside the Trump administration, exposing an extraordinary diplomatic miscommunication involving The Hague, the United States and the future of Venezuela’s political opposition. What exactly happened behind the scenes—and why did Dutch diplomats suddenly change course while María Corina Machado was already in the air?

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