Machado presented Trump with her Nobel award at White House meeting

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado told reporters she presented her Nobel Peace Prize to President Donald Trump at a private White House meeting on Thursday, but did not say if he accepted it.

"I think today is a historic day for us Venezuelans," she said after the meeting with Trump, the first time the two have met in-person.

In the weeks after US forces seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas, Trump has declined to endorse Machado, whose movement claimed victory in 2024's widely contested elections, as its new leader.

He is instead dealing with the acting head of state there, Delcy Rodríguez, Maduro's former vice-president.