The meeting had not been previously announced, and came in the context of Machado’s ongoing tour of Europe and the U.S. after she emerged from hiding in December 2025 to accept the Nobel Peace Prize.
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ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV met with Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado in a private audience at the Vatican on Monday.
The meeting, which hadn’t been previously included in the list of Leo’s planned appointments, was later listed by the Vatican in its daily bulletin, without adding details.
