"We are going to win, we are going to sweep," says Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, her arms wide open in a deluge that does not disperse the thousands of people who have poured into the streets to see her in Tachira, in the Venezuelan Andes. Machado, 56 years old, is not a candidate -she was disqualified from holding public office-, but she is the soul of the opposition campaign of Edmundo Gonzalez, who represents her on the electoral ballot and will face President Nicolas Maduro, who aspires to a third term in office, projecting him to 18 years in power. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES