Overview
- Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said she presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Trump during a private White House meeting.
- Trump later praised the gesture on his social platform and indicated he intends to keep the medal, following initial uncertainty over whether he accepted it.
- The Norwegian Nobel Institute reiterated that Nobel prizes and their medals are not transferable, underscoring the act’s symbolic nature.
- White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said the meeting does not alter U.S. strategy, with Trump maintaining that Machado lacks sufficient domestic support and continuing engagement with Delcy Rodríguez.
- The encounter follows the U.S. operation that led to Nicolás Maduro’s capture and transfer to New York on criminal charges, as Washington speaks of elections in Venezuela “at the right time.”