Trump told The Post Sunday that he was not sure the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner had enough support in Venezuela to lead the nation after dictator Nicolas Maduro’s ouster.

Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado said she's "absolutely" supportive of President Trump's strategy in the country.

María Corina Machado spoke with "CBS Evening News" anchor Tony Dokoupil on Tuesday, January 6, about the U.S. capture of Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, her opposition movement that she says is ready to lead the country,

With Nicolás Maduro out, experts say Nobel laureate María Corina Machado and Edmundo González could lead Venezuela’s transition, though major hurdles remain.

María Corina Machado said Nicolás Maduro will "face international justice for the atrocious crimes" he has committed.

“It’s a tremendous strategic and moral mistake” for Trump to distance himself from Machado, says Ian Vásquez, an expert on Latin America at the Cato Institute. To say Machado doesn’t have support inside Venezuela is “patently untrue,” says Vásquez.

Machado has been effusive in her support for Trump and his highly controversial attacks on Venezuelan “drug-boats” and “narco-terrorists” that have killed at least 115 people. UN experts have dubbed the strikes “extrajudicial executions”.

During a Fox News interview, the opposition leader said Venezuelans want to share her 2025 Nobel Peace Prize with the U.S. president.

The United States has captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Opposition leader María Corina Machado has been one of his biggest critics.

Opposition leader María Corina Machado, a Nobel Prize winner, remains in exile as Trump dismissed her chances of leading a democratic Venezuela. Venezuela’s Supreme Court declared Maduro’s absence temporary,