CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said Thursday that "decisive" actions by the United States, including the seizure of an oil tanker, have left the repressive government of President Nicolás Maduro at its weakest point, and she vowed to return to the country to keep fighting for democracy.

Machado's statements to reporters came hours after she appeared in public for the first time in 11 months after her arrival in Norway's capital, Oslo, where her daughter received the Nobel Peace Prize award on her behalf on Wednesday.

The actions of President Donald Trump "have been decisive to reach where we are now, where the regime is significantly weaker," she said. "Because before, the regime thought it had impunity ... Now they start to understand that this i

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