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Machado: Opposition smuggled Starlink terminals into Venezuela to prove election win

María Corina Machado · The Woman Who BEAT Maduro: Venezuela's Next Leader? Nobel Peace Prize Winner María Corina Machado · Oct 28, 2025 · at 47:10

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado reveals how her team secretly imported technology and established processing centers across Venezuela to digitize official tally sheets and verify the 2024 election outcome.

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“We smudled Starlink and antennas into the country, generators, Laptops, cell phones, and without the regime noticing it, we installed these a 130 operational places, and in less than 24 hours, we were able to prove our victory with the, you know, the images, original images of the telecheats being seen and scrutinized by the whole world.”

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