Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado stated on Monday that she wants to share her Nobel Peace Prize with American President Donald Trump and personally thank him after his administration’s military intervention in Venezuela.
In an interview for Fox News, Machado praised Trump for the overthrow of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Saturday, describing Washington’s actions as a “huge step for humanity, for freedom, and human dignity.”
Machado said that since October 10, the day she was declared the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, she has not spoken with the American president.
The opposition leader (58) received the prize after launching the most serious peaceful challenge to Maduro’s power. At that time, Machado dedicated a part of the award to Trump, who has long desired this prize and said he deserved the honor.
Speaking for Fox News on Monday, Machado said she would share the prize with Trump.
“I would certainly like to tell him personally that we believe, we the Venezuelan people, because this is an award of the Venezuelan people, that we certainly want to give it to him and share it with him,” Machado told Fox News host Sean Hannity.
Although Trump called Machado in October to congratulate her on winning the Nobel Prize, American media reported that he did not like that she accepted this long-desired award instead of refusing it and giving it to him, Euronews reports.
Planning a return
The opposition leader in Venezuela and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado stated that she plans to return to the country “as soon as possible.”
Late last night in a statement for Fox News, she also sharply criticized Delcy Rodríguez, who took the oath as the interim president of Venezuela on Monday, calling her “one of the main architects of the torture” attributed to the Venezuelan government.
Delcy Rodríguez expressed readiness to cooperate with Washington, but María Corina Machado believes that Venezuelans “reject” her.
“In free and fair elections, we will win with more than 90 percent of the votes, I have no doubt about that. We will make Venezuela the energy center of the Americas, we will introduce the rule of law, we will open markets, we will need security for foreign investments,” said Machado without mentioning her current location.
American President Donald Trump disqualified María Corina Machado as the interim acting president instead of Nicolás Maduro as early as Saturday when Maduro was arrested and taken to the USA, stating that she “did not have support or respect in her country.”
María Corina Machado was declared ineligible for the presidential elections in July 2024 by the government of Nicolás Maduro. She was soon replaced by another opposition representative, Edmundo González Urrutia, as the presidential candidate, who claims to have received the majority support of the citizens in the elections, over 65 percent of the votes. He soon left the country and Maduro’s authorities issued a warrant for him.
Maduro was declared the winner by the National Electoral Council, which never published detailed election results, citing a cyber attack as the reason.
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