{"id":497199,"date":"2026-01-08T23:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T03:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/trump-confirms-visit-of-maria-corina-machado-to-washington\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T23:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T03:18:08","slug":"trump-confirms-visit-of-maria-corina-machado-to-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/trump-confirms-visit-of-maria-corina-machado-to-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump confirms visit of Mar\u00eda Corina Machado to Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"The President of the United States, Donald Trump<\/strong>, stated on Thursday that the Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Mar\u00eda Corina Machado<\/strong>, will travel to Washington next week and said he is “impatient” to meet with her.\n\n\u201cI understand she will come sometime next week. I look forward to greeting her<\/strong>\u201d, Trump expressed in an interview with journalist Sean Hannity on the Fox News<\/em> channel, in which he also described her as \u201ca very nice person<\/strong>\u201d.\n\nMachado pointed out days ago, in an interview with the same station, that he would like to give the Nobel Peace Prize<\/strong> to Trump for his efforts to restore democracy to Venezuela. Asked about that gesture, the president replied: \u201cI have heard that he wanted to do it. It would be a great honor<\/strong>\u201d.\n\n\n

You can also read: U.S. rules out Mar\u00eda Corina Machado to stabilize Venezuela<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\nIn the same interview, Trump asserted that the capture of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/strong> “was not a difficult decision<\/strong>” and accused him of being linked to drug trafficking and of causing serious damage inside and outside Venezuela. “The Democrats wanted him, the Republicans wanted him, and nobody had what it took to catch him or didn’t want to do it<\/strong>“, he maintained, referring to the political consensus in Washington.\n\nThe US president stated that Maduro “killed many people<\/strong>” and allowed dangerous people to leave for the United States. According to Trump, the Venezuelan dictator “emptied his prisons<\/strong>” and “his mental institutions and asylums<\/strong>“, which facilitated the arrival of violent individuals to the North American country.\n\nTrump also blamed the Venezuelan regime for drug trafficking to United States<\/a> and assured that many vessels intercepted with drugs came from Venezuela. \u201cThere were many ships and a lot of drugs. Now there are almost no ships<\/strong>\u201d, he said, stating that his administration eliminated 97% of the drugs entering by sea.\n\nIn that context, he announced that his government will intensify actions against drug trafficking by land, especially against the cartels, which he accused of controlling large areas of Mexico. “It is very sad to see what has happened to that country<\/strong>,” he expressed.\n\nYou may be interested in: From Venezuela to Cura\u00e7ao, USA and Norway: the odyssey of Mar\u00eda Corina Machado for the Nobel Peace Prize<\/a>\n\nThe president linked drug trafficking to the public health crisis in the United States and stated that between 250,000 and 300,000 people die each year from drug use. “They are devastated families<\/strong>,” he pointed out, although he maintained that the rates are beginning to decline, as is the migratory flow on the southern border, which he described as “a total disaster<\/strong>” before his administration.\n\n\n

Asked about his ultimate goal for the governance of Venezuela, Trump assured that his administration is already observing concrete results, such as the release of political prisoners. \u201cPrisoners that no one thought they would see again are being released. In many cases I understand that they are good people<\/strong>\u201d, he stated, adding that the United States will work with them and with the leaders of the country.<\/p>\n\n\nTrump also revealed that his government took control of a Russian ship operating in Venezuela and that it now manages the unloading and marketing of oil. “We are taking thousands and thousands of dollars in oil, it will be hundreds of billions of dollars, even trillions<\/strong>“, he assured.\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\nFinally, he maintained that the United States will remain involved in Venezuela “until the country straightens itself out<\/strong>” and announced that his administration will meet at the White House with the world’s leading oil executives.\n\n\n

We recommend reading:Eduardo Saint-hilaire explains why Mar\u00eda Corina Machado cannot assume the presidency of Venezuela after Maduro’s capture<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\nAccording to Trump, the 14 most important companies in the sector plan to invest at least $100 billion<\/strong> to rebuild the Venezuelan oil infrastructure. “It’s incredible oil, with incredible quality and quantity<\/strong>,” he concluded.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, stated on Thursday that the Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Mar\u00eda Corina Machado, will travel to Washington next week and said he is “impatient” to meet with her. \u201cI understand she will come sometime next week. I look forward to greeting her\u201d, Trump expressed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-25ll","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Ana Laura L\u00f3pez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2025-01-29-at-1.45.56-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}