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Video Released of Venezuelan Opposition Leader’s Escape Ahead of Nobel Peace Prize

Machado gifted her 2025 Nobel Peace Prize medal to Trump to signal U.S. backing amid Venezuela's complex political transition, stirring controversy with Norwegian Nobel organizers.

  • On Thursday, María Corina Machado, Venezuelan opposition leader and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, met Donald Trump, U.S. President, at the White House and gifted him her Nobel medal.
  • Machado said she came to secure U.S. backing for a transition and to prepare transition teams, emphasizing she is just one person within a broader movement.
  • A two-hour Oval Office meeting included the adjoining dining room and was kept private, with Machado describing the talks as respectful and frank and noting President Donald Trump's concern for Venezuelans.
  • White House briefings said President Donald Trump has not changed his view of Machado's leadership, with Karoline Leavitt noting `realities on the ground` mean he continues supporting Delcy Rodríguez.
  • At the Heritage Foundation on Friday, Machado said she will return `soon` and asserted U.S. `unwavering` support, framing the contest as between the `cartel` and `justice`.
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Only an empty and insecure passport with regard to its own status would be to bid someone to receive a second-hand Nobel, Paul Krugman, a winner of a legitimate economy in 2008. The scene last week, which had the White House witnessed, is almost the historic record of a supporter — the era of acute, demeshed political cinema, no crime or shame. In the world around it, it is seen by American President Donald Trump, smiling, caught by the expensiv…

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“Pathetic.” “Unusual.” “Ridiculous” are some of the mentions of Maria Corina Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize to Donald Trump.

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Grey Bull Rescue, a private organization of ex-military personnel specializing in challenging operations in conflict and disaster zones, has released footage of Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado escaping from Venezuela. Operation "Golden Dynamite" had to be carried out in secret because the Venezuelan regime is seeking the hidden opposition leader. She then departed for Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, but arrived a day after …

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Aristegui Noticias broke the news in Mexico City, Mexico on Thursday, January 15, 2026.
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