Thursday, December 11, 2025

Venezuelan Nobel winner emerges to collect prize in Oslo

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. Machado appeared in Oslo in the middle of the night, waving from the balcony of a hotel. It was the first time she has been seen in public since January. The 58-year-old made the covert journey despite a travel ban and a threat from the Venezuelan government that she would be labelled as a fugitive.

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Earlier on Wednesday, her daughter, Ana Corina Sosa, accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on her mother's behalf. The Nobel Institute awarded Machado the prize this year for "her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy" in Venezuela.

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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

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