Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner, is scheduled to meet with President Donald Trump at this time.
Her go to to the White House comes because the president declined to endorse her following the US army strikes in Caracas and seize of the nation’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, whose vice chairman, Delcy Rodríguez, has been sworn in as appearing president.
Shortly after the January 3 army operation, Trump mentioned it might be powerful for Machado to lead Venezuela, saying she doesn’t have the help or the respect of the individuals.
Machado, nonetheless, has one thing Trump has lengthy coveted — a Nobel Prize. She’s advised she would supply her award to the US president, and he’s mentioned it’d be an “honor” to obtain it, though the Norwegian Nobel Institute has mentioned the prize cannot be transferred.
Asked on Friday whether or not receiving Machado’s prize would make him rethink his view of her function in Venezuela, Trump didn’t straight reply.