María Corina Machado will visit Trump this Thursday

Republican declared last week that he was ‘looking forward’ to greeting the opponent, who left Venezuela clandestinely thanks to the collaboration of the United States, to receive her award in Oslo

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María Corina Machado, Venezuela’s opposition leader, fled the country at the end of 2025

The American president, will receive on Thursday (15) the Venezuelan opposition and Nobel Peace Prize winner, a senior American official informed this Monday (12). Trump declared last week that he was “looking forward” to greeting the opponent, who left Venezuela clandestinely thanks to the collaboration of the United States, to receive her award in Oslo.

Machado dedicated the Nobel Prize to Trump, who, however, showed a very reticent attitude in counting on her for an eventual political transition in Venezuela. The opposition leader said this Monday, after an audience with Pope Leo XIV, that .

Trump assured that he is the one running the South American country and that the primary objective, for now, is to stabilize it, before elections can be considered. Venezuelan oil is Washington’s main objective, Trump added after Maduro’s ouster.

*With information from AFP

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