Trump and María Corina Machado held a meeting at the White House
porEditorial Team
Argentina
The meeting included Marco Rubio and addressed the political transition in Venezuela.
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, held a new meeting this Friday at the White House with the Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado. This is the second meeting between the two leaders in recent weeks, in the midst of the political transition that Venezuela is going through after the fall of the Chavista regime
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The meeting was held in the format of a private breakfast and was also attended by the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, and the White House Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles. As it turned out, the meeting was positive and lasted longer than expected, reflecting the importance that Washington attaches to the
Venezuelan political future. File image.
During the meeting, different aspects related to the country's institutional transition and the possible call for elections were addressed. Although there is still no definite date for the elections, the electoral scenario is one of the central issues in the conversations between the United States and the main Venezuelan political actors
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This was the second meeting between Trump and Machado in the White House. The first meeting took place on January 15, a few days after the U.S. military operation that ended with the capture of dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, who were later transferred to the United States to face drug trafficking charges
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At that meeting, Machado presented Trump with the medal corresponding to his Nobel Peace Prize, a gesture interpreted as recognition of the role that the U.S. administration played in the process that led to the collapse of the Chavista regime and the international drive to restore democracy in Venezuela after years of dictatorship.
The dictator was captured thanks to the Trump administration.
Since then, the U.S. government has maintained an active role in Venezuelan political reorganization, seeking to ensure a stable institutional transition that allows the country to recover a democratic system after decades of
authoritarianism and economic crisis.
In recent days, Machado has expressed his intention to return to Venezuela in the coming weeks to participate in the political process that is opening up in the country and to prepare a possible electoral scenario to consolidate the democratic transition.
