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Rubio warns Venezuela's Machado: Street protests won't get you democracy
A day after Venezuela's exiled opposition leader returned to Caracas with great fanfare, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a veiled warning against interfering with the country's fragile democratic transition pushed by the Trump administration."You're not going to street-protest your way into a democracy," Rubio told reporters Monday without explicitly mentioning María Corina Machado. Why it matters: Machado's demands for elections next year — and her criticism of a massive U.S. oil deal struck with the current Caracas regime — have put administration officials on edge after her surpr