Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado told reporters that she presented the Nobel Peace Prize to President Donald Trump in a private White House meeting on Thursday, but did not say whether he accepted it.
“I think today is a historic day for us Venezuelans,” she said after her meeting with Trump, the first time the two had met in person.
In the weeks since US forces arrested Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Trump has refused to endorse Machado, whose movement has declared victory in the widely disputed 2024 election, as its new leader.
He is dealing instead with the acting head of state there, Delcy Rodriguez, Maduro’s former vice president.