Latin America

Well, Machado is a strong supporter of free trade, an avid capitalist who wants to sell off Venezuela's state run agencies and favors foreign intervention and US sanctions against Venezuela. She's a daughter of a wealthy businessman and a Catholic.

She has been banned from holding public office for 15 years due to selling off Venezuelan assets and having ties to a raid of an armory before an attack on a Mayor's house.

I don't know how she could not know about her banning since the papers were writing about it long before she ran in that primary.