Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was received with official honours on Friday at the Madrid headquarters of Spain's centre-right Partido Popular (PP), where party leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo and dozens of officials greeted her with chants of "freedom" and "brave." Feijóo praised Machado's "coherence and determination" in defending democracy against Venezuela's authoritarian government, and used the occasion to criticise Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's administration for what he described as proximity to the Maduro regime. The visit underscores Machado's growing international profile as a symbol of Venezuelan democratic resistance, particularly after she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her human rights work; the event concluded with exiled Venezuelans in attendance singing Venezuela's national anthem.