[1] He held several jobs, including clerk, farm worker, miner and a teacher in a primary school.
Following the assassination of Pierre Declercq on 19 September 1981, Machoro became the party's general secretary.
On 1 December Jean-Marie Tjibaou declared the formation of a provisional government of Kanak Socialist Republic, with Machoro as Minister of Security.
On 11 January 1985 Yves Tual, the son of a European stockbreeder, was killed by independentist militants at La Foa.
On 12 January, the gendarmes started an operation to free the house of a European in Canala that the FLNKS had occupied under the leadership of Machoro.