Machado’s appearance at the rally was her first public appearance in months, since a government crackdown on Venezeulan opposition figures and their supporters last year.

Security forces fired on her convoy and detained Machado after she came out of hiding in a bid to block the president from clinging to power.

During her detention, an aide said, Maria Corina Machado “was forced to record several videos.” She has garnered enormous support for her opposition to Nicolás Maduro.

Venezuela pro-democracy figurehead Maria Corina Machado was briefly detained by security forces Thursday after emerging from months of hiding to lead a protest in Caracas, defiantly promising after

The brief arrest of Maria Corina Machado provoked swift condemnations from political leaders across the globe.

Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González, who claims to have defeated President Nicolás Maduro in last year’s presidential election, says that his son-in-law has been kidnapped in Venezuela’s capital.

María Corina Machado was seized by President Nicolás Maduro’s regime after she appeared at a protest in Caracas.

María Corina Machado, the driving force of Venezuela’s opposition movement, was briefly detained Thursday as she left a rally in Caracas, the opposition campaign said, a day before President Nicolás Maduro plans to take office for a third term.

Opponents of Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro took to the streets Thursday in a last-ditch protest against his swearing-in for a third six-year term as president. Attempts by Trump to force Maduro out during his first term as US president by recognizing a parallel opposition-led government and imposing sanctions on Venezuela's oil sector came to naught however.

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro delivers a speech during a meeting of leaders of the member states of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America and the Treaty of Commerce and Promotion (ALBA-TCP),