Nobel prize winner says Venezuela has a ‘unique’ $1.7 trillion opportunity to privatize its companies and reverse socialist ‘disaster’

Weeks after winning the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for her decades-long fight to restore democracy to Venezuela, opposition leader María Corina Machado is calling for what she describes as the most ambitious economic transformation in the nation’s history—a sweeping privatization aimed at reversing the policies of President Nicolás Maduro and what she calls “the disaster this socialist system has wrought.”

Appearing virtually at Fortune’s “Venezuela’s Fight for Freedom” event, Machado, currently in hiding from the Maduro regime...