Donald Trump thanked María Corina Machado for giving him the Nobel Peace medal and said that “we will talk again.” He also stated that the administration has “an excellent relationship with the people who currently run Venezuela. “A lot of pressure has been released” after the attacks on January 3
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, assured this Friday that he plans to remain in contact with the Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, María Corina Machado, whom he said is a woman “he respects very much”, after their meeting on Thursday at the White House.
«Yesterday I had a great meeting with a person I respect a lot, and she obviously also respects me and our country, and she gave me her Nobel Prize. I had never met her before, and I was very impressed. “She is a great woman,” Trump told the press upon leaving the White House.
As for the Nobel Prize medal that Machado herself presented to the president on Thursday as a sign of “gratitude,” Trump said it was a “very kind gesture.”
“He told me (quoting the opposition leader): ‘You have put an end to eight wars and no one in history deserves this award more than you.’ And I thought it was a very nice gesture. “I think she is a great woman and we will talk again,” Trump added.
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Trump and Machado had lunch on Thursday at the White House, in their first meeting, which came after the US military operation that resulted in the capture of Nicolás Maduro on January 3. No details of the conversation between the two have emerged, but the opposition leader has stated that the US president is committed to the Venezuelan cause.
Regarding his “alignment” with Delcy Rodríguez, who he has said has met “all his demands,” Donald Trump justified it by saying that in Iraq “everyone was fired” and “then they became ISIS.”
“If you ever remember a place called Iraq, where everyone was fired, all the people, the police, the generals, everyone was fired, and they ended up being ISIS,” the president said.
Likewise, he said that his administration has “an excellent relationship with the people who currently run Venezuela. A lot of pressure has been released,” referring to the easing of military tensions after the intervention at the beginning of the month.
Trump assured that in the first conversation he was informed that 50 million barrels of oil were available for processing, since there was no longer any storage space inside Venezuela. «Will they accept it? I said, ‘We’ll take it.’ I didn’t have to consult with anyone about it, I didn’t have to call our attorney general. “I said ‘we’ll take it’ and it’s the equivalent of $5.2 billion.”
He also specified that these barrels of oil are on their way to the United States.
The president also said that he “likes Venezuela a lot” and the country has experienced a 180-degree turn in record time: “Venezuela has changed a lot in literally a week.”
With information from EFE agency
*Journalism in Venezuela is carried out in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments in place to punish the word, especially the laws “against hate”, “against fascism” and “against the blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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