Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado told Newsmax on Monday that she remains in hiding and on the run from Nicolas Maduro’s “brutal persecution campaign” of everyone who had a hand in defeating him in last summer’s election.

Machado was part of the opposition that behind candidate Edmundo González, handily defeated Maduro on July 28. Electoral authorities loyal to the ruling party, however, declared Maduro the winner hours after polls closed. But the opposition collected tally sheets from more than 80% of electronic voting machines, posted them online and said the tallies show González won twice as many votes as Maduro.

While Gonzalez is exiled in Spain, Machado remains, albeit in hiding, in hopes of somehow, someday ousting Maduro and his “criminal structure,” she said in an appearance on “The Record With Greta Van Susteren.”

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