María Corina Machado
| María Corina Machado | |
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Machado at a gathering in Guarenas in 2014
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| Member of the National Assembly of Venezuela | |
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In office 5 January 2011 – 21 March 2014 |
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| Succeeded by | Ricardo Sánchez |
| Constituency | Miranda |
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| Born |
7 October 1967 Caracas, Venezuela |
| Political party | Come Venezuela |
| Other political affiliations |
Coalition for Democratic Unity Súmate (2001–2010) |
| Alma mater | Andrés Bello Catholic University, IESA |
| Profession | Industrial engineer |
| Website | www |
María Corina Machado Parisca (born 7 October 1967, sometimes referred to as MCM) served as an elected member of the National Assembly of Venezuela (NA). She was the founder, former vice president, and former president of the Venezuelan volunteer civil organization Súmate, along with Alejandro Plaz, and a pre-candidate for the 2012 Venezuelan presidential elections.
Machado was charged (together with other Súmate representatives) with conspiracy for funds Súmate received from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), triggering condemnation of the administration of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez from human rights groups supported by NED.
During the 2014 Venezuelan protests, Machado was one of the lead figures in organizing protests against the government of Nicolás Maduro.
Machado was born 7 October 1967 as the oldest of her three other sisters, the daughter of Enrique Machado, a steel businessman and Corina Parisca, a psychologist. She acknowledges a "childhood protected from contact with reality" in a "conservative, staunchly Catholic family", that included education in a private school in Venezuela named Merici Academy and boarding schools in the USA and several trips in Europe. Her ancestors included the author of the 1881 classic Venezuela Heroica and a relative who was killed in an uprising against Venezuelan dictator Juan Vicente Gómez.
Machado has a degree in industrial engineering from Andrés Bello Catholic University and a master's degree in finance from Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (IESA, business school) in Caracas.
In 1992 Machado – a mother of three – started Fundación Atenea (Atenea Foundation), a foundation using private donations to care for orphaned and delinquent Caracas street children; she also served as chair of the Oportunitas Foundation. After working in the auto industry in Valencia she moved in 1993 to Caracas. Because of her subsequent role in Súmate, Machado left the foundation so that it would not be politicized.
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