María Corina Machado

María Corina Machado Parisca ( born October 7, 1967 in Caracas ) is a Venezuelan politician.

Life

Machado is the founder of the NGO Súmate ( Spanish for " Join ", Association for the Advancement of Constitution and Democracy ) free exercise of political rights and civil rights.

Published in 2004, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez documents that showed the National Endowment for Democracy (NED ) funded civil associations in the country as Súmate, as well as the tripling of these grants of $ 250,000 to 0.9 million 2000 USD / 2001. Maria Corina Machado, Alejandro Plaz, and other members were accused of accepting these funds to influence voters for the re-election referendum in 2004 by the Chavez government of treason and conspiracy.

On 12 November 2011, an attack was on Machado at an election rally in Caracas, committed. Unknown fired shots. This violated an employee Machado. She herself was uninjured.