Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize last week, has called for greater US support to stop what she described as a “war” on her country by President Nicolás Maduro.
In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour Wednesday, Machado echoed the Trump administration in calling Maduro the leader of a “criminal narco-terrorism structure” while asking US President Donald Trump for greater “help” in unseating him from power.
She also said the US leader “absolutely” deserves a Nobel Peace Prize of his own due to the “incredible events that are taking place currently in the world,” referring to Trump’s efforts to broker peace in the Middle East.
The comments by Machado – whose winning of the prize upset some MAGA supporters who had hoped Trump would win it – come at a time of rising tensions between the US and Venezuela. They follow several US military strikes on boats off the coast of Venezuela deemed by the Trump administration to be “narco-trafficking” vessels, the latest of which took place on Tuesday, killing six people on board.
Neither Trump nor his administration have offered evidence that these were drug-trafficking vessels, but they have produced a classified legal opinion that justifies lethal strikes against an expansive list of cartels and suspected drug traffickers, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.
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