With Nicolás Maduro suddenly deposed, this should be María Corina Machado’s moment.
But Venezuela’s main opposition leader, out of public view abroad, faces difficult choices after the US seized Maduro to face trial — when to return to her homeland and whether to call her supporters on to the streets to press for wholesale regime change.
Machado has ridden a rollercoaster over the past month, going from the glory of being awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo in December to receiving a public humiliation from US President Donald Trump at a news conference on Saturday, where he said she lacked the support or respect needed in Venezuela to be leader.