(FILES) Venezuelan opposition leader and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado poses during a photo session in Paris on April 14, 2026. It is "essential" that opposition leader Maria Corina Machado takes part in the political dialogue due to begin on August 1, 2026 in Venezuela, said Alejandro Fleming, a former minister under the ousted Nicolas Maduro and his predecessor Hugo Chavez, in an interview with AFP. (Photo by JOEL SAGET / AFP via Getty Images)