Machado once backed Trump’s Venezuela plan. Now the jilted Nobel laureate is frozen out

In October, María Corina Machado portrayed President Donald Trump as the leader who would help deliver a peaceful, orderly democratic transition centered on Venezuelan opposition figures.

Instead, he is signaling a U.S.-managed transitional arrangement that may even work with Chavista successors to deposed leader Nicolás Maduro and focuses heavily on U.S. control of Venezuelan oil.

Machado’s interview at Fortune Global Forum in Riyadh now reads like both a warning and a missed chance...