Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado announced Thursday that she is determined to negotiate a democratic transition of power with acting president Diosnely Rodríguez following the overthrow of Nicolás Maduro in January. Machado's opposition movement affirms that their candidate Edmundo González Urrutia won the controversial 2024 elections, in which Maduro declared himself the winner. Machado, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, called on the United States in a statement to support serious, firm, and responsible political negotiations with the transitional government to restore democracy in Venezuela.