Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado praised U.S. President Donald Trump for ousting former President Nicolas Maduro, calling it a giant achievement for humanity, for which Trump should rightly receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
"Jan. 3 will go down in history as the day justice defeated tyranny. It's a milestone, and it's not only huge for the Venezuelan people and our future, I think it's a huge step for humanity, for freedom, and human dignity," Machado told Fox News on Monday night.
She said Trump's action to begin dismantling Maduro's "narco-terrorist regime," bringing him to justice, and with it, bringing democracy within reach for 30 million Venezuelans, proved beyond doubt that he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize, said Machado, herself the recipient of this year's peace prize.
However, she issued a warning to the Trump administration that the woman who was sworn in as Maduro's replacement, interim president Delcy Rodriguez, was not to be trusted, accusing her of being "one of the main architects of torture, persecution, corruption, narco-trafficking," in Venezuela.
"She's a main ally and liaison of Russia, China, Iran, certainly not an individual who could be trusted by international investors and she's really rejected by the Venezuelan people."
