 "Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. While her courage is undeniable and the Maduro regime has devastated Venezuela, a potential regime change may not guarantee a better future for ordinary citizens. (Reuters)")
Nobel Peace Prize winner and Venezuelan Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has called on US President Donald Trump for greater support to stop a “war” against her country waged by President Nicolas Maduro.
Talking to CNN, Machado concurred with Trump’s rhetoric of calling Maduro the leader of a “criminal narco-terrorism structure” and asked the US president for greater “help” in removing him from power.
Machado, who went into hiding after last year’s disputed election, has welcomed the U.S. actions, saying they cut off support to Maduro’s regime. She also accused Maduro of turning Venezuela into “a real threat to the national security of the United States.”
She also reiterated that Trump “absolutely” deserves a Nobel Prize due to the “incredible events that are taking place currently in the world,” referring to the president’s efforts in settling the Israel-Hamas war.
Meanwhile, Trump has said that he is considering striking the Venezuelan land to target drug cartels, potentially expanding the military activity beyond the seas.
“We are certainly looking at land now, because we’ve got the sea very well under control,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office when asked if he was weighing strikes on land. His comments triggered outrage and orders for large-scale military exercises from his counterpart, Nicolas Maduro.
Tensions between the US and Venezuela have reached a tipping point, with Trump already hitting Venezuelan “drug” boats off the coast, in a move that he claims will prevent the entry of narcotics into the US.
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More ShortsTrump indicated Wednesday he had authorised covert CIA action against Venezuela and said he was considering strikes against alleged drug cartels on land in the South American country.
Republican Trump declined to comment in detail about a New York Times report that he had secretly approved the CIA to conduct covert action in Venezuela against Maduro.
“But I authorized for two reasons really,” he said, before listing familiar talking points accusing Maduro of leading a “narco-terrorist” regime and of releasing prisoners from jails and sending them to the United States.