Machado’s appearance at the rally was her first public appearance in months, since a government crackdown on Venezeulan opposition figures and their supporters last year.

Venezuelan Opposition Leader Maria Corina Machado was seen exiting an anti-government protest in Caracas on Thursday before her team reported her arrest by security forces. Machado emerged from months of hiding earlier in the day and reappeared in public as part of a last-ditch attempt to block President Nicolás Maduro from clinging to power.