Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wants to give her 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to President Trump.
“I certainly would love to be able to personally tell him that we believe — the Venezuelan people, because this is a prize of the Venezuelan people, want to give it to him and share it with him,” Machado told host Sean Hannity on Fox News’s “Hannity.”
Machado has backed Trump’s aggressive posture toward the Maduro regime and dedicated her Nobel Prize to the people of Venezuela and the president.
Just more than three days since the U.S. captured and arrested Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, the long-term future of the South American nation is unclear. While Venezuela’s high court has named Vice President Delcy Rodríguez as interim leader, Trump has said the U.S. will run the country until an orderly transition can occur.
“We don’t want to be involved with having somebody else get in, and we have the same situation that we had for the last long period of years,” the president said at a press conference Saturday.
Trump also told reporters that Machado lacks the support or respect to govern Venezuela and was not consulted on the operation beforehand.
The former National Assembly member won the opposition primary two years ago, but Maduro barred her from running against him in the general election, and she backed Edmundo González. While Maduro claimed victory in the July 2024 election, international observers dismissed the government’s election data as statistically improbable.
Machado then went into hiding in her own country for more than a year, before reappearing last month in Oslo, Norway, where her daughter accepted her prize on her behalf.
Now, though, she said she plans to return to Venezuela as soon as she can.
“I’m planning to go back to Venezuela as soon as possible,” she told Hannity. “As I’ve always said, Sean, every day, I make a decision [about] where I am more useful for our cause.”
