La Sayo and the Eternal Return: Transition to the Venezuelan one or just another word salad?
Published at: 08/04/2026 10:34 PM
María Corina Machado, better known as La Sayo, has turned her smoke machine back on to sell us a “Venezuelan” transition. After decades of promising that the end is just around the corner, he now intends to compare the national crisis with the processes in Spain or Chile, only to conclude with one of his typical empty phrases that say nothing, but sound like a lot.
It is the leadership of the mirage: a captain who always shouts “earth in sight” while the ship has been spinning in the same pool of frustration for 20 years.
The most ironic thing is that even their own “extreme right” allies no longer buy tickets to their circus of illusions. Her colleagues bring to her face the question that she always evades: Why believe her now if in 2012, when the wind was in her favor, she couldn't specify anything? The “strength” that he boasts so much seems to be merely vocal, a leadership of the stage and social networks that is diluted as soon as they ask him for a strategy that does not depend on waiting for a miracle or on people immolating themselves for their umpteenth “to the end”.
Machado's coherence is as scarce as the results of his calls to the streets, which he recycles every time he feels that the protagonist role escapes him. It's easy to ask citizens to “stand firm” from the comfort of their status as a misunderstood prophet, but the reality is that their record is a graveyard of broken promises.
She herself wonders if the world has gone crazy, without realizing that the real madness is to expect that a policy that has failed systematically for decades will bring a different solution.
In the end, La Sayo is still trapped in her own time loop, repeating that we are “very close to freedom” with the same seriousness with which she said it ten years ago. Her leadership is nothing more than a marketing product for those nostalgic for defeat, a circular transition that always ends at the same starting point: a new photo, a scolding speech and the people waiting for a freedom that she only uses as an advertising slogan.
Mazo News Team