Exiled Venezuelan Leader Who Gifted Trump Nobel Prize Will Return Home, Run for President

Exiled Venezuelan Leader Who Gifted Trump Nobel Prize Will Return Home, Run for President


Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado says she plans to return home and run for president again after her time in exile.

Machado made the announcement Saturday while meeting with fellow opposition leaders in Panama City, according to the Associated Press.

Her comments come months after the collapse of Nicolás Maduro’s regime.

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Machado has become one of the best-known anti-socialist voices in Latin America.

She won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for her work promoting democracy in Venezuela.

Earlier this year, Machado personally gifted her Nobel medal to President Donald Trump during a White House meeting.

Trump called it a “wonderful gesture.”

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