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.”

“The only way to really dismantle them is we need to cut the inflows that come from criminal activities such as drug trafficking, arms smuggling, even human smuggling,” she added.

“Finally, we’re seeing in this administration, w

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