{"id":330867,"date":"2026-01-12T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/pope-leo-xiv-meets-with-venezuelan-opposition-leader-maria-corina-machado"},"modified":"2026-01-12T08:00:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:00:04","slug":"pope-leo-xiv-meets-with-venezuelan-opposition-leader-maria-corina-machado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/pope-leo-xiv-meets-with-venezuelan-opposition-leader-maria-corina-machado","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV meets with Venezuelan opposition chief Mar\u00eda Corina Machado"},"content":{"rendered":"


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ROME — <\/span>Pope Leo XIV met with Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Mar\u00eda Corina Machado<\/a> in a private audience at the Vatican on Monday. <\/p>\n

The meeting, which hadn\u2019t been previously included in the list of Leo\u2019s planned appointments, was later listed by the Vatican in its daily bulletin, without adding details.<\/p>\n

Machado is touring Europe and the United States after she reemerged in December to accept her Nobel Peace Prize in Norway.<\/a><\/p>\n

Pope Leo, the first American pontiff, has called for Venezuela to remain an independent country after U.S. forces captured former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from his compound in Caracas and flew him to New York to face federal charges of drug-trafficking.<\/p>\n

Leo had said he was following the developments in Venezuela with \u201cdeep concern,\u201d and urged the protection of human and civil rights in the Latin American country. <\/p>\n

Venezuela\u2019s opposition<\/a>, backed by consecutive Republican and Democratic administrations in the U.S., had vowed for years to immediately replace Maduro with one of their own and restore democracy to the oil-rich country. But U.S. President Donald Trump delivered them a heavy blow by allowing Maduro\u2019s vice president, Delcy Rodr\u00edguez, to assume control.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, most opposition leaders, including Machado, are in exile or prison.<\/p>\n

After winning the 2025 Nobel Prize for Peace, Machado said she\u2019d like to give or share it with Trump.<\/p>\n

Machado dedicated the prize to Trump, along with the people of Venezuela, shortly after it was announced. Trump has coveted and openly campaigned for winning the Nobel Prize himself since his return to office.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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