Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar of Florida says that Venezuela's opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has "earned" being in power. Machado will be meeting with President Trump this week.

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

“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.

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,

Senior advisers to President Donald Trump sidelined Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado during deliberations over Venezuela's post-Maduro transition, viewing her insistence on a full democratic overhaul as incompatible with Washington's short-term stability calculations.