CaracasMaría Corina Machado ended 16 months in hiding.

Her party, Vente Venezuela, holds no seat in the talks deciding Venezuela’s transition.

Interim president Delcy Rodríguez has negotiated with Assembly president Dinorah Figuera since August, after a US operation captured Nicolás Maduro on 3 January.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio credits those talks for her return and for hundreds of released political prisoners.

The open question is whether Rodríguez’s government will admit her party to those talks.

How each outlet framed it
Global Voices leans favorable
centres doubts among ordinary Caracas crowds and Machado's seven failed re-entry attempts blamed on the Trump administration

Sources: Global Voices