Venezuela’s popular opposition leader, María Corina Machado, was detained during an anti-government protest in Caracas on Thursday, according to a statement on X by her party, Vente Venezuela. Ms. Machado had been living in hiding amid threats of arrest from government officials, and this was her first public appearance since August.

Venezuelan Opposition Leader Maria Corina Machado was seen exiting an anti-government protest in Caracas on Thursday before her team reported her arrest by security forces. Machado emerged from months of hiding earlier in the day and reappeared in public as part of a last-ditch attempt to block President Nicolás Maduro from clinging to power.