Opposition leader Machado says she hasn’t spoken to Trump since attack as she vows to return to Venezuela – live

María Corina Machado told Fox News she would share her Nobel peace prize with the US president after the removal of Nicolás MaduroDeposed Maduro pleads not guilty after capture in shock US attack on VenezuelaUS foes and allies denounce Trump’s ‘crime of aggression’ in Venezuela at UN meetingWelcome to our live coverage of the continuing aftermath of the US military’s weekend raid on Venezuela and removal of president Nicolás Maduro from power.Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel peace prize winner María Corina Machado has said in her first televised interview since then that she hasn’t spoken Donald Trump since October 2025.Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Democratic minority in the US Senate, expressed discontent with a classified briefing for Congressional leaders, calling the Trump administration’s “plan for the US ‘running Venezuela’ … vague, based on wishful thinking and unsatisfying”.Mike Johnson, the Republican speaker of the US House, emerged from the classified briefing insisting that “we are not at war” and “this is not a regime change,” but “a demand for a change of behaviour by a regime”.The reported appearance of unidentified drones over the presidential palace in Venezuela’s capital on Monday night filled the night sky with the sound of heavy gunfire and tracer fire as the regime’s security forces reacted to what they mistook for another raid.Trump suggested to NBC News that US taxpayers could fund the rebuilding of Venezuela’s infrastructure for extracting and shipping oil. “A tremendous amount of money will have to be spent and the oil companies will spend it, and then they’ll get reimbursed by us or through revenue.”White House adviser Stephen Miller reaffirmed to CNN the Trump administration’s position on Greenland becoming a part of the US. Continue reading...