The president of the United States, Donald Trump, and the Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Maria Corina Machadowill have lunch this Thursday at the White House to address the situation in Venezuela after the capture of Nicolás Maduro.
According to the official agenda of the American president, the lunch will be held at 12:30 Washington time, 6:30 p.m. Spanish time, in a private dining room in the White House and will take place behind closed doors, without access for the press.
The meeting, the first between both, will come less than two weeks after the United States deposed Maduro during an attack in Venezuela on January 3 in which the Chavista leader and his wife, Cilia Flores, were captured and taken to New York to be tried for drug trafficking.
So far, Trump has excluded Machado and the Venezuelan opposition from the transition process in Venezuela, where the vice president, Delcy Rodriguezassumed power as interim president with Washington’s endorsement.