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Orianna Rosa Royle

‘Maduro started the war, President Trump is ending the war,’ says Nobel winner in hiding for her life

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Donald Trump has cast himself as the president of peace, having credited himself for brokering ceasefires between Thailand and Cambodia earlier this week, as well as Israel and Hamas earlier this month. Now, the Venezuelan opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado, says he could be to thank for future peace in Venezuela. 

Speaking at Fortune’s Global Forum while in hiding, and just weeks after winning the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, Machado said that Venezuela’s President, Nicolás Maduro and “the regime” have turned her country into a “narco-terrorist structure.” 

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