Chapotraphouse

She's infamous known for leading the 2004 legislative coup attempt against Chavez (the one Jimmy Carter sided with Chavez), she also took part in the 2002 military coup. I remember at the time Lula da Silva (President of Brazil) and Nestor Kirchner (President of Argentina) called Bush and told Bush to; "Shut that annoying Venezuelan woman up, she's making everything worse, if you want to negociate with Chavez then you better make her shut the fuck up."

Machado and Plaz were invited to meet with National Assembly legislators in August 2006 for an investigation about Súmate's funding but were denied access to the hearing, claiming they received two letters requesting their presence. She also faced treason charges for signing the Carmona Decree during the 2002 Venezuelan coup attempt.

After the coup and the defeat in the recall referendum in 2004, Machado expanded his activities and sought international support for Súmate. In 2005, she visited the White House and met with then-US President George W. Bush. The meeting sparked outrage from Caracas, which alleged that, at that time, not even the Venezuelan ambassador in Washington could secure a meeting with Bush.

One of Machado's main proposals is to privatize most of Venezuela's public assets and companies, including the oil company PDVSA. The company is the main source of foreign exchange revenue for the state and, despite the crisis and sanctions, remains the most dynamic hub of the Venezuelan economy. Machado, however, has not yet presented a plan for how she would execute the sale of the state-owned company.

The proposal is based on ultra-liberal ideas that Machado has defended for years and that are in the statutes of the party she founded in 2012, Vente Venezuela: a minimal state, the predominance of private property, and the leading role of the business sector.

In the social sphere, despite remaining neutral on issues such as the legalization of abortion and marriage equality, Machado adopts a conservative discourse that resonates among more radical opponents of Chavismo, in addition to being in tune with some far-right political forces in other countries, such as the Vox party in Spain, and with figures linked to "Bolsonarism" in Brazil.

Proof of this is that the former Venezuelan deputy is one of the signatories of the Madrid Charter, a manifesto created in 2020 with the support of various far-right factions and figures, such as Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, Javier Milei, president of Argentina, and Giorgia Meloni, prime minister of Italy.