Venezuelan absorption person Maria Corina Machado arrives astatine the U.S. Capitol to conscionable U.S. senators aft her gathering with U.S. President Donald Trump astatine the White House, successful Washington, D.C., U.S., Jan. 15, 2026.
Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters
U.S. President Donald Trump met with Venezuelan absorption leader Maria Corina Machado on Thursday successful a high-stakes brushwood that could impact however the Republican medication seeks to signifier the South American country's governmental future.
After the meeting, Machado told reporters she had presented Trump her Nobel Peace Prize, though it was not instantly wide whether helium had accepted the medal, which helium has agelong coveted. Machado said she had done truthful successful designation of his committedness to the state of the Venezuelan people.
The luncheon meeting, which appeared to past somewhat implicit an hour, marked the archetypal clip the 2 person met successful person. Machado then met with much than a twelve senators, some Republican and Democratic, connected Capitol Hill, wherever she has mostly recovered much enthusiastic allies.
While the sojourn was ongoing, White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said Trump had been looking guardant to meeting Machado, but that helium stood by his "realistic" appraisal that she did not presently person the enactment needed to pb the state successful the abbreviated term.
Machado, who fled Venezuela successful a daring seaborne flight successful December, is competing for Trump's receptor with members of Venezuela's authorities and seeking to guarantee she has a relation successful governing the federation going forward.
After the U.S. captured Venezuela's longtime leader, Nicolas Maduro, successful a snatch-and-grab operation this month, assorted absorption figures, members of Venezuela's diaspora and politicians passim the U.S. and Latin America person expressed anticipation that Venezuela volition statesman the process of democratization.
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