Venezuelan opposition leader Machado says she ‘presented’ her Nobel prize medal to Trump
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado on Thursday “presented” her Nobel Peace Prize medal to US President Donald Trump, who has openly coveted the award that the Nobel committee says cannot be transferred. Machado, whom Trump had earlier dismissed as unfit to lead Venezuela, did not clarify if Trump kept the medal (AFP) “I presented the president of the United States the medal of the Nobel Peace Prize,” Machado told reporters outside the US Capitol after her White House meeting with Trump. Machado, whom Trump had earlier dismissed as unfit to lead Venezuela, did not clarify if Trump kept it, AFP reported. She compared it to the gesture by Marquis de Lafayette, the French officer who helped the United States in the Revolutionary War against Britain, and handed a medal to Simon Bolivar, the Venezuelan who led a wave of successful independence fights against Spain. Drawing on this comparison, Machado said that after two hundred years, the people of Bolivar are giving back the medal to the “heir of Washington.” Presenting the medal of the …
