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Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said she would "personally" give her Nobel Peace Prize to President Donald Trump after he launched a raid to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro over the weekend.
Machado, who has been living in hiding under Maduro's regime since 2024, told FOX News' Sean Hannity Monday (January 5) night that she hasn't spoken to Trump since she was awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee for her fight against the dictatorship but said the president has now proven that he deserves the award.
“Let me be very clear, as soon as I learned that we had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, I dedicated to Trump because I knew at that point, he deserved it. And lot of people, most people said it was impossible to achieve what he has just done on Saturday, January 3rd. And so, I believe he deserved it," Maduro said.
The Venezuelan opposition leader claimed that Maduro's capture was "a huge step for humanity."
“January 3 will go down in history as the day justice defeated tyranny,” she claimed. “It’s a milestone, and it’s not only huge for the Venezuelan people and our future, I think it’s a huge step for humanity, for freedom, and human dignity.”
Machado said she hadn't ever offered Trump her Nobel Prize but is open to doing so.
“It hasn’t happened yet, but I would certainly love to be able to personally tell him that we, the Venezuelan people — because this is a prize of the Venezuelan people — certainly want to give it to him and share it with him,” Machado said.
Trump had previously told the New York Post that he wasn't sure if Machado had "the support of the people that she has to have" when asked if he would put her in power after Maduro's capture on Sunday (January 4).