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A highly symbolic meeting took place at the White House on Thursday, where Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado offered Donald Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, which she was awarded in December, an action that sparked international debate and reaction.
In a post on social media, the American president wrote:
“It was a great honor to meet Maria Corina Machado from Venezuela today. She is an amazing woman who has been through so much. Maria offered me the Nobel Peace Prize for the work I have done. Such a wonderful gesture of mutual respect. Thank you, Maria!”
Machado herself confirmed the fact, stating that during the meeting and lunch she had with Trump at the White House without the presence of journalists, she presented him with the Nobel Peace Medal.
"I gave the president of the United States the medal, the Nobel Peace Prize," she said, linking her action to a historical example from Latin America.
As she explained, she was referring to Simón Bolívar and the fact that two hundred years earlier the Marquis de Lafayette had given him a medal with George Washington's face on it, which Bolívar kept throughout his life.
"Two hundred years later, the people of Bolívar return to Washington's heir a medal - in this case the Nobel Peace Prize, in recognition of his unique commitment to our freedom," she said.
Recall that the Norwegian Nobel Committee has made it clear that the Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded or transferred, which creates an institutional problem around the symbolism of the movement.
The White House confirmed the meeting, noting that President Trump made a "realistic assessment" of Machado's popular support, but did not give a timeline for holding elections in Venezuela.
White House spokeswoman Caroline Levitt had previously said that the election would not be discussed at the dinner, with Trump primarily seeking to be briefed on the situation in the country.
After the meeting, Machado said that "we can always count on President Trump for the freedom of Venezuela," describing the meeting as "wonderful."
The politician, who recently fled Venezuela where she had been hiding for months, is seeking to secure a future role in the governance of her country, with the Nobel gesture taking on a clearly political and symbolic character.
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