Mar%C3%ADa Corina Machado

Mara Corina Machado Parisca served as an elected member of the National Assembly of Venezuela . She was the founder, former vice president, and former president of the Venezuelan volunteer civil organization Smate, along with Alejandro Plaz, and a precandidate for the 2012 Venezuelan presidential elections.

Machado was bornOctober 1967 as the eldest of four daughters a steel entrepreneur and an accomplished psychologist. She acknowledges a childhood protected from contact with reality in a conservative, staunchly Catholic family, that included education in private schools in Venezuela and boarding schools in the USA and several trips in Europe. Her ancestors included the author of the 1881 classic Venezuela Heroica and a relative who was killed in an uprising against Venezuelan dictator Juan Vicente Gmez.

Source: Wikipedia