Machado is hiring DC lobbyists for access to Venezuela's future

Opposition leader-in-exile Maria Corina Machado has hired veteran Republican lobbyists in Washington DC in what experts say is an effort to gain the support of the Trump administration as she continues to seek the Venezuelan presidency.Machado has retained lobbyist Ed Rogers as a U.S.-based “government affairs and public relations” consultant, according to a recent disclosure made to the Department of Justice under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Rogers, a veteran of the George H.W. Bush administration, is a founding partner of BGR Group, the third largest lobbying firm in Washingt