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Machado

British  
/ maˈʃadu /

noun

  1. Joaquim Maria (ʒuaˈkɪ maˈria). 1839–1908, Brazilian author of novels and short stories, whose novels include Epitaph of a Small Winner (1881) and Dom Casmurro (1899)

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Her movement would offer investors the right institutional, fiscal and contractual conditions in a fully private oil and gas sector, offering “the most competitive government take in the Western Hemisphere,” Machado says at the S&P Global CERAWeek conference.

From The Wall Street Journal

Machado says she thinks Venezuela can produce more than five million barrels of oil per day, up from about one million barrels today.

From Barron's

Machado, who won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, got two standing ovations from the hundreds of attendees in the room at the CeraWeek conference put on by S&P Global.

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Machado said she would encourage stable long-term contracts and cap royalties at 20%.

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“You said some words that are magic for this audience,” he told Machado.

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