News Summaries in June 2026
Note to readers: newly prepared summaries of older stories may sometimes be placed at the top to call attention to them, at least for a time. They also will be placed in chronological order. “Opposition Leader Says Return Barred,” Wall Street Journal, June 30, 2026 Exiled Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said her country’s government blocked her from flying home from Panama to help with earthquake relief. Machado said she would find a way to return. That sets up a showdown with the U.S.-backed government led by Nicolas Maduro’s former vice president and the current interim president, Delcy Rodriguez, said Vera Bergengruen and Juan Forero of the Wall Street Journal. Machado said in a video posted on social media in Panama that because so many have died in the earthquakes in Venezuela it is “impossible to postpone” her return. On June 26, Machado, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to return democracy to Venezuela, left on a private plane fr...