María Corina Machado urged her compatriots to maintain hope while vowing to fight for democracy after a senior Trump envoy cut a deal with President Nicolás Maduro to facilitate U.S. deportations.

Conservative Spanish parliament member Cayetana Alvarez de Toledo, in Miami to receive a democracy award, said her government — and President Trump's — should get tougher on Venezuela's brutal dictatorship.

Six Americans who had been detained in Venezuela are heading home to the US, President Donald Trump announced Friday, after his envoy met with the country’s President Nicolás Maduro.