Venezuelan Nobel Winner Emerges to Collect Prize in Oslo

Thursday, December 11, 2025

Venezuelan opposition leader Mara Corina Machado, who has been in hiding for months, has told the BBC that she knows "exactly the risks" she's taking by travelling to Norway to collect her Nobel Peace Prize.

Posted by REDIAL at 08:30 PM | 9 COMMENTS | permalink

Venezuelan Nobel peace prize winner greets crowds in Oslo after nearly a year in hiding

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-- The Guardian (@theguardian.com) Dec 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM

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Yeah, such may be the risks she faces after Pres Trump may have thought she ~stole~ the Peace Prize from him.

Kudos to her for being the fly in the face of Pres Trump's apparent "might makes right" self-gratification.

She has shown that she deserved the award.

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-11 03:21 AM

Kudos to her for being the fly in the face of Pres Trump's apparent "might makes right" self-gratification.

She was smuggled out of Venezuela under escort of US F-18's.

She has shown that she deserved the award.

How? By calling for an invasion of Venezuela by the US Military? I am not sure what she's done to deserve it. But then again, I never understood why Obama received the prize either.

#2 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-12-11 06:56 AM

How did she win the peace prize without vaporizing any fishermen?

#3 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-11 09:55 AM

She called for an invasion of Venezuela to bring her to power there.

Does that count or does she have to actually have Blood on her record to qualify?

Nobel invented Dynamite.

Weird guy to be handing out peace prizes in my opinion.

#4 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-12-11 10:14 AM

The woman who beat Donald Trump to the Nobel Peace Prize had to beg the White House not to blow her up on her way to collect the award.

www.thedailybeast.com

LOL

#5 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-11 10:59 AM

Weird guy to be handing out peace prizes in my opinion.

Dynamite was developed as a safer way to use nitroglycerine as a blasting agent. It was not used much in military applications.

#6 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-12-11 01:02 PM

Yeah ok, If you say so.

I would think stable explosives make better more user friendly Bombs and munitions.

Tell me that's not the Case?

Nitroglycerin is too unstable to use as an explosive for bombs dropped from planes.

Dynamite or its derivatives is much better for that purpose.

Not Peaceful.

#7 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-12-12 09:51 AM

Nobel literally set up the prize fund in his will because he felt guilty about creating better weapons.

He didn't just invent dynamite, which, while more frequently used in peaceful blasting than as a weapon, absolutely can be used as a military explosive. He also invented gelignite, one of the earliest plastic explosives, and ballistite, a smokeless gunpowder.

#8 | Posted by DarkVader at 2025-12-12 10:40 AM

Wonder what kind of prize the inventor of a super intelligent AI will be giving out after the guilt sets in with him?

I also wonder if there will be anyone left able to receive it after the Singularity.

#9 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-12-13 07:59 AM

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