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.

Conservative Spanish parliament member Cayetana Alvarez de Toledo, in Miami to receive a democracy award, said her government — and President Trump's — should get tougher on Venezuela's brutal dictatorship.

Six Americans who had been detained in Venezuela in recent months have freed by the government of President Nicolás Maduro after he met with a senior Trump administration official