{"id":594062,"date":"2026-10-26T10:30:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T07:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=594062"},"modified":"2026-10-26T11:07:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T08:07:20","slug":"tsikhanouskaya-we-hope-venezuela-will-begin-moving-towards-truly-free-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/tsikhanouskaya-we-hope-venezuela-will-begin-moving-towards-truly-free-elections","title":{"rendered":"Tsikhanouskaya: We Hope Venezuela Will Begin Moving Towards Truly Free Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><b>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya<\/b> welcomed the return of <b>Mar\u00eda Corina Machado<\/b> to Venezuela. She expressed hope that Venezuela would now begin moving towards truly free elections.<\/p>\n<p><em><i>\u201c<span class=\"max-w-full text-[length:inherit] font-[weight:inherit] text-[color:inherit]\">I am very happy to see <\/span><\/i><span class=\"max-w-full text-[length:inherit] font-[weight:inherit] text-[color:inherit]\">Mar\u00eda Corina Machado<\/span><i><span class=\"max-w-full text-[length:inherit] font-[weight:inherit] text-[color:inherit]\"> return to Venezuela. Her extraordinary struggle reminds us that the path to freedom may be long, but it is worth fighting for. We all hope that Venezuela will now move towards truly free elections and fully rejoin the family of democratic nations<\/span><\/i><\/em><em><i>,\u201d<\/i><\/em> Tsikhanouskaya <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Tsihanouskaya\/status\/2114617369305743560\">wrote<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Venezuelan opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado returned to her home country after an absence of several months. Last year, she secretly left the country despite a ban imposed by the authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya welcomed the return of Mar\u00eda Corina Machado to Venezuela. She expressed hope that Venezuela would now begin moving towards truly free elections. \u201cI am very happy to see Mar\u00eda Corina Machado return to Venezuela. Her extraordinary struggle reminds us that the path to freedom may be long, but it is worth fighting for. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":594063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6adf0a3d4e5e2.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Tsikhanouskaya: We Hope Venezuela Will Begin Moving Towards Truly Free Elections"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143090],"tags":[143118,143172],"class_list":["post-594062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-belarus","tag-svetlana-tihanovskaja"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":594066,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594062\/revisions\/594066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}