New Delhi, April 20 -- Venezuela's exiled opposition leader Maria Corina Machado drew several thousand supporters Saturday to a rally in Madrid, where the Nobel laureate declined a meeting with Spain's progressive Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on a multicountry European tour.

Sanchez, an outspoken critic of U.S. President Donald Trump, was hosting a summit of like-minded progressive leaders from around the world Saturday, while Machado extolled Trump's ouster of Nicolas Maduro in January.

Earlier this year, she presented Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize.

"What happened in the last few hours at the meeting (Sanchez) held in Barcelona with several leaders and political figures from different countries demonstrates why such a meeting was n...