{"id":497674,"date":"2026-01-14T22:40:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T02:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/donald-trump-and-maria-corina-machado-will-have-lunch-this-thursday-at-the-white-house\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T22:40:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T02:40:54","slug":"donald-trump-and-maria-corina-machado-will-have-lunch-this-thursday-at-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/donald-trump-and-maria-corina-machado-will-have-lunch-this-thursday-at-the-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump and Mar\u00eda Corina Machado will have lunch this Thursday at the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Washington.-<\/strong> The President of the United States, <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>, and the Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, <strong>Mar\u00eda Corina Machado<\/strong>, will have lunch this Thursday at the White House to discuss the situation in Venezuela following the capture of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.<\/p>\n\n\nAccording to the official schedule of the US president, the lunch will be held at 12:30 Washington time (17:30 GMT) in a private dining room of the White House and will take place behind closed doors, with no access for the press.\n\nThe meeting, the first between the two, will take place less than two weeks after <a href=\"https:\/\/efe.com\/mundo\/2026-01-15\/trump-maria-corina-machado-casa-blanca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the United States<\/a> deposed Maduro during an attack in Venezuela on January 3 in which the Chavista leader and his wife, Cilia Flores, were captured and transferred to New York to be tried for drug trafficking.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-70.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-594517\" style=\"width:426px;height:auto\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>You may be interested in:<a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/internacionales\/trump-publica-imagen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump publishes image claiming to be &#8220;interim president of Venezuela&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\nSo far, Trump has excluded Machado and the Venezuelan opposition from the transition process in Venezuela, where the vice president, Delcy Rodr\u00edguez, assumed power as acting president with Washington&#8217;s endorsement.\n\nMachado has <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/internacionales\/trump-quita-peso-maniobras\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">publicly stated<\/a> his desire to share the Nobel Peace Prize with Trump, who aspires to obtain that award, as an attempt to bring positions closer to the president, although the Nobel Committee has warned that the prize is non-transferable.\n\nThe meeting will be held one day after Trump and Delcy Rodr\u00edguez had a phone conversation in which they discussed issues related to oil, minerals, trade, and security.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-70.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-594519\" style=\"width:451px;height:auto\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nThe Republican affirmed that Rodriguez is a &#8220;fantastic person&#8221; and that &#8220;tremendous progress&#8221; is being made to stabilize Venezuela.\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>You can also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/internacionales\/embajador-australiano-en-ee-uu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Australian ambassador to the US who criticized Donald Trump will leave his post in March<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\nAccording to the acting president, the call was &#8220;long, productive and courteous&#8221;, and took place &#8220;in a framework of mutual respect&#8221;.\n\nTrump maintains that the United States maintains a guardianship over the Venezuelan government and has announced agreements to receive millions of barrels of Venezuelan crude oil.\n\nThis Wednesday, Delcy Rodr\u00edguez reported that in recent days 406 political prisoners have been released in the country and that the process of release &#8220;remains open&#8221;.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington.- The President of the United States, Donald Trump, and the Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Mar\u00eda Corina Machado, will have lunch this Thursday at the White House to discuss the situation in Venezuela following the capture of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. 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