Corina Parisca

Corina Parisca Pérez de Machado (born 23 December 1940) is a Venezuelan psychologist and former tennis player. She won the National Tennis Championship in 1959 and represented Venezuela at the Pan American Games of the same year. She co-founded the Atenea Foundation, focused on care for orphaned and delinquent Caracas street children, with her eldest daughter, María Corina Machado.

Biography Corina Parisca Pérez de Machado In 1959 she won the National Championship title and that same year represented Venezuela at the Pan American Games in the United States.

Following the 2024 Venezuelan presidential elections, Parisca was under house arrest and her home was surrounded by officials from the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM). Similar to the extraction of those detained in the 2024 siege of the Argentine Embassy in Caracas, she was safely removed from Venezuela to the United States.

Personal life Parisca married businessman Henrique Machado Zuloaga, with whom she had four daughters; the eldest, Maria Corina, was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.