Washington. The President of the United States, Donald Trump, claims that María Corina Machado, the opposition leader and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, does not have the necessary support in Venezuela to lead a transition in the country, according to spokesperson Karoline Leavitt, in the context of her scheduled meeting this Thursday at the White House. When asked if Trump had altered his stance on the Nobel Peace Prize, Leavitt indicated that the President’s opinion was a realistic assessment, based on what he read and heard from his advisors and national security team. Today, Machado had a meeting with the President that lasted more than two hours, just under two weeks after the detention of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro during an operation in Venezuela, in which his wife, Cilia Flores, was also arrested. Both were taken to New York to face narcoterrorism charges. Leavitt stated that the President intended to discuss the situation in the country with her. The activist accessed the presidential residence of the United States through a side entrance and did not answer questions from the press. This will be the first meeting between the two, and it comes after the intervention of American forces that overthrew Maduro in a raid in Venezuela, which led to the capture and transfer of the Chavista leader and his wife to New York to face drug trafficking charges.
