Trump to meet with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado

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Washington — Venezuelan absorption person and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado volition conscionable with President Trump astatine the White House connected Thursday, a White House authoritative said.

Mr. Trump has not endorsed Machado to pb Venezuela aft the U.S. subject cognition to region former President Nicolás Maduro, who is present facing cause trafficking charges successful the U.S.. Mr. Trump says the U.S. is taking complaint of Venezuela for present and volition beryllium heavy progressive successful its lipid market for perchance years.

"She doesn't person the enactment within, oregon the respect within, the country," Mr. Trump said astir Machado connected Jan. 3. "She's a precise bully woman, but she doesn't person the respect."

Machado has praised Mr. Trump and precocious floated the thought of giving him her Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Institute said the prize cannot beryllium transferred, revoked oregon shared, and is final.

"I surely would emotion to beryllium capable to personally archer him that we judge — the Venezuelan people, due to the fact that this is simply a prize of the Venezuelan radical — surely privation to, to springiness it to him and stock it with him," Machado told Fox News' Sean Hannity last week. "What helium has done is historic. It's a immense measurement towards a antiauthoritarian transition."

The institute awarded her the prize for her efforts to beforehand a peaceful modulation to ideology successful Venezuela. Mr. Trump has expressed vexation that helium wasn't the recipient of the award, citing the planetary conflicts his medication has helped settle.