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Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump is set to meet Thurs­day at the White House with Venezue­lan op­po­si­tion leader María Co­ri­na Macha­do, whose po­lit­i­cal par­ty is wide­ly con­sid­ered to have won 2024 elec­tions re­ject­ed by then-Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro, be­fore the Unit­ed States cap­tured him in an au­da­cious mil­i­tary raid this month.

Less than two weeks af­ter U.S. forces seized Maduro and his wife at a heav­i­ly guard­ed com­pound in Cara­cas and brought them to New York to stand tri­al on drug traf­fick­ing charges, Trump will host the No­bel Peace Prize lau­re­ate Macha­do, hav­ing al­ready dis­missed her cred­i­bil­i­ty to run Venezuela and raised doubts about his stat­ed com­mit­ment to back­ing de­mo­c­ra­t­ic rule in the coun­try.

“She’s a very nice woman,” Trump told Reuters in an in­ter­view about Macha­do. “I’ve seen her on tele­vi­sion. I think we’re just go­ing to talk ba­sics.”