Machado: Venezuela's oil wealth contrasts with children eating from garbage
María Corina Machado · The Woman Who BEAT Maduro: Venezuela's Next Leader? Nobel Peace Prize Winner María Corina Machado · Oct 28, 2025 · at 8:17
Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado highlights the economic decay in Venezuela by contrasting its massive oil reserves with severe poverty.
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“The country that has the largest oil reserves in the world have been walking around those areas where that oil is actually beneath the ground, and you see children eating from garbage.”
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