Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, vowed to restore Venezuela and celebrated the Trump administration’s capture of Nicolás Maduro.
Speaking to Fox News host Sean Hannity, Machado said, “January 3rd will go down in history as the day justice defeated tyranny.” She described the event as a “milestone,” stating that “it’s not only huge for the Venezuelan people and our future, I think it’s a huge step for humanity, for freedom, and human dignity.”
“A free Venezuela means, first, a security ally, dismantling the criminal hub of the Americas and turning it into a security shield, the strongest ally to dismantle all these criminal structures that have made so much damage and harm to our people and to the American people as well,” she said, asserting that Venezuela will be the “main ally of the United States in Latin America” under her watch.
“We will bring rule of law. We will open markets. We will give security to foreign investment,” she stated, adding, “We will [leave] behind all the destruction this socialist regime, criminal regime, has brought to our people and turn Venezuela into the main ally of the United States in Latin America.”
Machado dedicated the Nobel Peace Prize to President Trump in October. “We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy,” she said. “I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!”
