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Venezuelan opposition leader Machado to visit White House on Thursday

María Corina Machado, 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner, will discuss her potential role in Venezuela's future with President Trump amid ongoing political transition.

  • On Thursday, María Corina Machado is scheduled to meet President Donald Trump at the White House, a senior White House official told CNN.
  • After U.S. strikes in Caracas, Machado's visit arrives amid political upheaval following Nicolás Maduro's capture and Delcy Rodríguez sworn in as acting president; Trump declined to endorse Machado.
  • The Nobel transfer debate adds symbolic weight as María Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner, suggested offering her award to President Donald Trump, though the Norwegian Nobel Institute said it cannot be transferred.
  • President Donald Trump said `I think it's very nice that she wants to come in` and `I'm going to have to speak to her`, adding she `might be involved in some aspect of it`.
  • The report was updated with additional details and credited Samantha Waldenberg, CNN contributor, while Trump has said `I can't think of anybody in history that should get the Nobel Prize more than me`.
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Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has dedicated her Nobel Prize to Donald Trump and declared that she wants to share the prize with the US President. However, now the Nobel Institute has spoken and has shattered Trump's hope.

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The Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2025, organized a meeting with President Donald Trump Joi, declared an official of the White House for NBC News. His visit to the White House has a place in the context in which the US leader refused to support him after the US military attacks in Caracas and the capture of the country's president, Nicolas Maduro.

·Romania
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Several international media outlets refer to unnamed White House officials that on January 15, the President of the United States intends to meet with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Maria Corina Machado.

·Vilnius, Lithuania
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U.S. President Donald Trump will receive Thursday the head of the Venezuelan opposition and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado, at a time when the release of political prisoners in Venezuela continues to go down the drain. The U.S. President suggested that she could hand over her distinction, while he left her out for the moment of responsibilities in Venezuela, preferring to deal with the interim president Delcy Rodriguez, the former…

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Reuters broke the news in United Kingdom on Monday, January 12, 2026.
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