Venezuela’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado has announced plans to run for president again and intends to return to her home country before the end of 2026.

Machado’s remarks, made while meeting in Panama with several fellow Venezuelan opposition leaders, come more than four months after the stunning White House decision to sideline her and instead work with a Venezuelan ruling party loyalist following the US military’s capture of then-President Nicolás Maduro.

Machado has been in exile since December, when she emerged from 11 months in hiding somewhere in Venezuela and travelled to Norway, where she was honoured with the Nobel Prize.