US-backed Machado (Nobel Peace Prize winner) ‘longed’ to turn Venezuela into US oil hub 📌 On Dec 11, 2025, Maria Corina Machado unabashedly expressed her ‘longing” to sell out her country to the US, saying: 💬 ’We will turn Venezuela into that energy, technological and democracy hub of the Americas. And we count on you. And I long for that day… and it's going to be soon.’ The US appears to have answered her pleas… | Tara Shalane

Nobel Peace Prize winner and Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado told Margaret Brennan "the day Maduro goes, you will see tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants coming back home from the United States and all over the world." President Trump announced Saturday morning that the U.S. will "run the country" following the military operation in Venezuela and the capture of its leader Nicolás Maduro. | Face The Nation