FILE PHOTO: Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Maria Corina Machado addresses supporters during a rally in Guacara, Carabobo State, Venezuela March 13, 2024. REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/File Photo
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado is facing increasing pressure from her allies to choose a substitute to potentially run in her place in the July presidential election, five sources with knowledge of the matter said.
Machado, a 56-year-old industrial engineer, won the opposition's nominating contest in October by a landslide, but Venezuela's top court has since upheld a ban on her candidacy that was imposed over her support of U.S. sanctions, among other things.
