US EditionPope Leo meets Venezuelan opposition leader Machado at Vatican
Maria Corina Machado, barred from Venezuela's 2024 election, met Pope Leo amid claims of vote irregularities and political crisis, according to independent observers.
- On Monday, Pope Leo met Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado at the Vatican, a meeting listed in daily appointments but omitted from an earlier press advisory.
- Maria Corina Machado was barred from running when authorities aligned with Nicolas Maduro excluded her from Venezuela's 2024 general election, and she backed a stand-in candidate widely considered to have won.
- The opposition figure is described as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former National Assembly member Machado, barred from Venezuela's 2024 election by authorities aligned with Maduro.
- In a Friday foreign policy speech, Pope Leo decried military force and called for protection of human rights in Venezuela, signaling heightened Vatican engagement with Venezuela's crisis through recent appointments.
- Independent audits show ballot irregularities in Venezuela's 2024 results, and coverage referenced an alleged U.S. capture of Nicolas Maduro by order of President Donald Trump.
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Pope Leon of XIV received a month in the Vatican, led by the Venezuelan and laureate Nobel Peace Prize, Maria Corina Machado, informed the press office of the Holy Scaun, transmits EEE, according to Agerpres.
Pope Leo XIV received in the Vatican this Monday the leader of the Venezuelan opposition, Maria Corina Machado, as reported by the Holy See in its noon communiqué, detailing the private hearings of the Pontiff in the morning. The visit did not appear in the forecasts of the Pope’s agenda that are made public at first hour, so it has been a surprise. Machado has then declared on social networks that he has asked the Pontiff to intercede “for the …
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Pope Leo XIV met with Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado in a private audience at the Vatican on Monday. The meeting, which the AP reports hadn't been previously included in the list of Leo's planned appointments, was later listed by the Vatican in its...
“Today I had the blessing and honor of being able to share with His Holiness and express our gratitude for his follow-up on what is happening in our country. I also conveyed to him the strength of the Venezuelan people, who stand firm and pray for the freedom of Venezuela, and I asked him to intercede for all Venezuelans who remain kidnapped and disappeared,” said the leader of the Venezuelan opposition.
Pope Leo XIV received in audience Maria Corina Machado, leader of the Venezuelan opposition and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 2025. A surprise meeting, which was announced in the official bulletin published by the Holy See press room citing Machado among the people received by the pontiff. It took place on the morning of January 12 and took place in the Vatican Apostolic Palace. At the moment no further details on the meeting have been publish…
The face to face between the pontiff and Venezuelan leader took place in the Vatican's private library. Machado wore a rosary around his neck
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