There will not be a free election, most likely she will not be allowed to participate in an unfree election, and everyone who voted for her knew this.
She has advocated for the dictatorship to be removed by force for a decade, supported the harshest sanctions possible, and openly called for foreign military intervention. She has consistently condemned and rejected negotiations with the dictatorship. Everyone who voted for her knows this, and it is why she got 93% of the vote.
The Venezuelan opposition has traditionally been fractured and infiltrated. The last time it was this united was early 2019, and the dictatorship almost fell.
The USA should take note of these election results, and immediately re-institute the oil sanctions they lifted a short time ago. The USA should cease all negotiations and dialogue with the dictatorship, and open a dialogue with Maria Corina and her team about the best way to remove Maduro by force. This is what 93% of Venezuelans are asking for by casting their votes for Maria Corina.
We should view this election as a plea for help from a terribly oppressed people. They're done with negotiations, endless farcical diplomatic processes and politicians who are content to feed at the trough of controlled opposition. Their selection of Maria Corina Machado by such a large margin when they knew she was banned from the election is an endorsement of her ideas and approach, something with which they are extremely familiar.
Venezuelans have spoken. It is time to use force to bring down the dictatorship. Let us hope that leaders in the USA have even a fraction of the cojones that Maria Corina does.