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Venezuela’s Supreme Tribunal of Justice has dismissed opposition leader María Corina Machado’s appeal challenging her 15-year election ban first announced by the government of Nicolás Maduro in June 2023. ¹
Furthermore, the court also upheld findings that Machado had supported the country’s ‘criminal embargo,’ seized funds from foreign banks, and ‘stripped the businesses and wealth of the Venezuelan people.’ ²