María Corina Machado will meet today with Marco Rubio at the U.S. Department of State.

Caracas.- The Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado will meet this Tuesday at the U.S. Department of State with the secretary of this institution, Marco Rubio, at 10:00 a.m. local time (14:00 GMT), informed the official spokesperson of the also Nobel Peace Prize winner 2025.

Through X, Machado's team announced the meeting, although they did not offer details about the topics to be discussed or additional information in this regard. The meeting takes place after the United States officially resumed operations of its Embassy in Caracas on Monday, after the Donald Trump Administration and the Government of the Venezuelan interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, re-established diplomatic relations between both countries, broken since 2019. Likewise, this occurs in a context where Machado has expressed her willingness to return to Venezuela, after she left the country last December to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway after spending a year in hiding to avoid being arrested by the Venezuelan authorities, who have accused her of violence and of calling for a military invasion. The opponent will return to Venezuela "in the coming days", her party Vente Venezuela (VV) reiterated on Saturday, without specifying a return date for the leader.

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Last week, a Venezuelan delegation led by chargé d'affaires Félix Plasencia visited Washington to meet with members of the Trump administration and receive control of the Venezuelan Embassy in the United States, which has been guarded by the State Department since 2023. Since the capture of Nicolás Maduro by US forces on January 3 in Caracas, the Trump Administration and the Government of Delcy Rodríguez have drawn closer and in early March formally re-established diplomatic relations between both countries.

Trump has currently ruled out Machado to lead the South American country and instead recognized Delcy Rodríguez. According to the Republican, the United States exercises a tutelage over the government in charge of Venezuela, which has complied with Washington's demands to open the oil and gold sector of Venezuela to American companies.