María Corina Machado is a brave woman to acknowledge the skills of President Trump and all he has done to promote peace around the world.

I don't see her anywhere acknowledging "the skills of President Trump and all he has done to promote peace around the world".

What I do see is her acknowledging that she wants his help and he is her "greatest hope" (always a precarious position--just ask Mike Pence). But that is a function of the position of power that he holds, not his skills. There are many people with way better skills, but they don't have the power.

I will give Trump credit for being skilled at acquiring power, and wielding it for his own personal benefit. It is quite well known that if you want Trump's help, you need to suck up to him and flatter his ego. We've seen lots of people do that. So Maduro is doing that. She's dangling to him the possibility of him helping her as possibly helping his chances of winning next year's Prize. And that he wants very much--for his own ego, not because he's any humanitarian. That is her "best hope".