Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado on Monday downplayed fears that President Donald Trump had reached an understanding of coexistence with strongman Nicolás Maduro following a deal reached last week in Caracas in which the socialist regime agreed to receive thousands of her countrymen deported from the United States.

In a whirlwind trip, an envoy of President Donald Trump undid years of Biden administration diplomacy in Venezuela and started fresh with its President Nicolás Maduro, a shift that could have repercussions from migration to the oil market.

María Corina Machado urged her compatriots to maintain hope while vowing to fight for democracy after a senior Trump envoy cut a deal with President Nicolás Maduro to facilitate U.S. deportations.