"Maria Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump this week, the White House has confirmed. The conversation aims to bridge the void created by the paradoxical estrangement between the two at the height of the Venezuelan crisis, following Nicolas Maduro's forced removal from power. Just as the United States finally decided to intervene in the Caribbean nation something Machado had been urging for months the main opposition leader suffered an unexpected setback."
"Following Maduro's arrest, the White House reassessed its options, and Maria Corina Machado was not among them. Trump himself announced a negotiated transition with the now-acting president, Delcy Rodriguez, and dismissed Machado as the person to lead the country at this time. She doesn't have the support within or the respect within the country, he said. She's a very nice woman, but she doesn't have the respect."
"The U.S. media has also reported on Trump's apparent anger at not having won the Nobel Peace Prize, which went to Machado instead. Trump's decisions, enthusiastically supported by his Secretary of State Marco Rubio the main proponent of Machado and her team's interpretation of the Venezuelan crisis carry real implications beyond mere symbolism: the White House has chosen to turn the page on the 2024 presidential election results, which, according to numerous international reports, gave a resounding victory to Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, Machado's can"
Maria Corina Machado will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump this week. The meeting aims to bridge an estrangement that emerged during the Venezuelan crisis after Nicolas Maduro's forced removal from power. The United States ultimately intervened after months of Machado urging action, yet Machado suffered an unexpected setback when she was excluded from U.S. plans following Maduro's arrest. Trump announced a negotiated transition with now-acting president Delcy Rodriguez and publicly said Machado lacked support and respect within the country. The opposition movement with broad support was left out and currently lacks organic territorial ties to the population. U.S. media reported Trump's apparent anger at not winning the Nobel Peace Prize, which went to Machado, and decisions backed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio carry implications beyond symbolism.
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