Former Miss Universe Alicia Machado made a trip to the east coast this week to join civil rights leader Dolores Huerta and People For the American Way (PFAW) in the launch of a new campaign titled “Donald Trump’s Year of Hate.”
Although her visit was mainly to discuss her horrible experience working with the GOP frontrunner during her Miss Universe run back in 1996, Machado revealed she was using this opportunity to draw attention to the crisis in Venezuela as well.
“I’m very worried,” she told Latin Times when we asked about her thoughts on her country’s devastating situation. “But I am taking advantage of my visit here in Washington to advocate a little bit for my country and try to find out when we are going to be able to wake up from this nightmare.”
The 39-year-old beauty queen, who recently moved back to the U.S. to finally become an American citizen, confessed that she had just received alarming news about her father, who is still in Venezuela, and is very concerned about his current health status.
“Precisely today, I am very preoccupied because my dad is in the hospital,” she disclosed during the sit-down. “He needs medication that they don’t have in the country. People are dying over anything.”
She continued, “I think Venezuela definitely needs a humanitarian intervention, urgently. I think what could be happening is that we are used to seeing these types of situations from a distance, like in the Middle East, Syria, but Venezuela is going through the same situation. I really can believe that a country as rich, and as beautiful as Venezuela is going through this.”
Finally, Machado expressed her frustration by questioning, “I really don’t know what else us Venezuelans, who have a voice, have to do to get someone to help us, to get the world to help us.”
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