Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado kept her promise and gave United States President Donald Trump the Nobel Peace Prize she was awarded in 2025 during their meeting in Washington on Thursday. “María presented me with her Nobel Peace Prize for the work I have done,” said Trump, in reference to the January 3 U.S. military operation that captured Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro in Caracas. pic.twitter.com/eRkTYLKpgH — Comando ConVzla (@ConVzlaComando) January 15, 2026The Nobel reactsOn Thursday, the Nobel Peace Center, a museum in Norway dedicated to the prize, wrote in an X post that “a medal can change owners, but the title of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate cannot.”Last week, the Norwegian Nobel Committee and the Norwegian Nobel Institute said in a statement that a Nobel award cannot be transferred from its laureate to another person. Once a Nobel Prize is announced, it cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others. On Wednesday, the day before meeting the Nobel laureate, Trump described Delcy Rodríguez as a “terrific person” and said that his administration is “getting along really well with Venezuela.”

Source: Bueno Aires Herald January 16, 2026 21:28 UTC