CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — Venezuela’s Opposition Leader Maria Corina Machado said Sunday she will return to her country “in a few weeks”, following months of exile and an escape to Oslo to receive her Nobel Peace Prize.

The 58-year-old would return to a South American nation now ruled by interim president Delcy Rodriguez in the aftermath of a United States (US) raid that ousted leftist autocrat Nicolas Maduro two months ago.

Venezuelan authorities had labelled her a fugitive from justice and accused her of calling for military intervention against the country.

“I will return in a few weeks to Venezuela,” Machado said in a video posted on her social media accounts.

“We will arrive to embrace one another, to work together, to ensure an orderly, sustainable and unstoppable transition to democracy,” she added.

Machado has remained in the United States for most of her exile. In January, just two weeks after US forces snatched Maduro and brought him to New York for trial, she met with President Donald Trump in the White House and presented him with her Nobel prize.

She has also met with US lawmakers, business leaders, foreign ministers and heads of state from countries she did not specify.

Trump has said he would like to “get her involved” in Venezuela’s political process. But at the same time, the president has sidelined Machado and backed former vice president Rodriguez as interim leader of the oil-rich country.

Machado was banned from running for president in the 2024 election. After Maduro controversially claimed a re-election victory, a wave of repression forced her to remain in hiding for more than a year.