Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado is revising her forthcoming book, the New York Times reports.
Machado’s The Freedom Manifesto was initially scheduled for release on Feb. 3 by Regnery, the conservative press that is now an imprint of Skyhorse, but the publication date has been changed to March 17, according to the publisher’s webpage for the book.
Machado is a co-founder of the nongovernmental vote-monitoring group Súmate and an outspoken opponent of Nicolás Maduro, the authoritarian president of Venezuela who was seized by U.S. forces on Jan. 3. She won the Nobel Peace Prize last year “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”
Regnery announced last month that it would publish her book in February but now says that Machado is adding new material to address the extraordinary changes in her country with the capture of Maduro. He and his wife are currently being held in a Brooklyn jail, charged with narcoterrorism and corruption, among other crimes.
Tony Lyons, the publisher of Skyhorse, told the Times that the press is “rushing” to get the book into stores quickly and might be available in early February, as was initially planned.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
