NEWSMAX -- Maria Corina Machado, Venezuela's top opposition leader and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner, publicly endorsed President Donald Trump's recent military strikes on drug-running vessels linked to Nicolas Maduro, saying Trump is "stopping the war, ending the war" that Maduro started.
Fox News host Maria Bartiromo opened Sunday's interview by asking Machado whether Maduro is behind the smuggling vessels approaching U.S. waters.
"Oh, absolutely. Everybody knows Maduro is the head of the biggest drug cartel, Cartel of the Suns, also the head of the Tren de Aragua, a criminal network that has committed crimes in the U.S., Canada, down to Argentina and Chile." Machado said on "Sunday Morning Futures."
Machado is a prominent voice in Venezuela's opposition and has long urged international backing for measures targeting regime-connected crime.