VIDEO Maria Corina Machado says she will be elected president of Venezuela “at the right time”
Maria Corina Machado. Photo credit: Alex Wroblewski / AFP / Profimedia
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2025, said she believes she will be elected president of Venezuela “at the right time”, in an interview broadcast by Fox News on Friday, reports AFP.
“I believe that there is a mission to fulfill and that we will transform Venezuela into this land of grace and that I will be elected president of Venezuela at the right time and that I will be the first woman to hold this position,” said Maria Corina Machado on the “Fox and Friends Weekend” show, according to Agerpres.
María Corina Machado en Fox News: “Cuando llegue el momento correcto, seré la primera mujer electa presidenta de Venezuela”. pic.twitter.com/S02DXmgfC4
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Shortly after the capture of President Nicolas Maduro, now detained in the United States, Donald Trump declared that Machado, who had secretly left Venezuela in December to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, was not qualified to lead the country.
He also had extensive talks this week with the country's interim president, Delcy Rodriguez, for whom he had nothing but praise, calling her an “extraordinary person”.
According to the New York Times, CIA director John Ratcliffe met Thursday in Caracas with Delcy Rodriguez, who is targeted by US sanctions.
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“I want to serve my country where I am most useful,” Machado said in the Fox News interview.
Asked what awaits Venezuela now, she replied: “Freedom. And not only that, we will have a country, as we have always said, that will be the envy of the whole world.”
Donald Trump welcomed the Venezuelan opposition leader to a White House lunch on Thursday, during which she presented the US president with the Nobel Prize medal.
“He deserves it. It was a very emotional moment,” she said on Fox News.
The Nobel Peace Center, based in Norway's capital Oslo, told the X Network on Thursday that laureates can dispose of the gold medal associated with the award as they see fit, but added that “a medal can change the owner, but not the title of laureate.”
