Leadership Quote by Maria Corina Machado

Possession is doing double duty here: it sounds like reassurance, but it’s also a rallying cry that redraws the political battlefield as a home invasion. By stacking “your property, your home, and your country,” Maria Corina Machado compresses the intimate and the national into a single threatened space. The move is rhetorically efficient: if the state (or “they”) can take your country, it can take your front door; if it can take your home, your savings and title deeds become fair game. Politics becomes personal survival.

The intent is to make ownership feel non-negotiable and to recruit citizens as stakeholders, not spectators. In a Venezuelan context, that language lands on decades of expropriations, currency controls, arbitrary rulemaking, and the broader sense that institutions have been captured by a governing apparatus that treats legality as optional. “We will not allow them” is not merely defiant; it manufactures a protective “we” that implies organization, discipline, and a credible plan to resist - at the ballot box, in the streets, or through international pressure. It also conveniently shifts the conversation from ideology to theft: the regime isn’t wrong, it’s stealing.

The subtext has a sharp edge. “They” is deliberately vague, inviting listeners to project onto it: party elites, security forces, foreign patrons, or a faceless bureaucracy. That ambiguity widens the coalition while heightening moral clarity. The phrase “what is yours is yours” echoes a basic social contract: if the government can’t guarantee ownership, it can’t claim legitimacy. Machado is betting that a politics of violated rights will unite people more reliably than a politics of abstract reform.