María Corina Machado, Venezuela's pro-democracy leader, head of the Vente Venezuela movement, and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has returned to her homeland after at least seven unsuccessful attempts. Her struggle for democracy spans more than two decades. On January 13, 2012, she famously confronted President Hugo Chávez in Venezuela's National Assembly, challenging him to a debate and declaring that his government's expropriations amounted to theft: “Expropiar es robar.” 

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