Venezuelan Opposition Figure María Corina Machado Wins Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Friday to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado for her efforts “in favor of a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”

“María Corina Machado is one of the most extraordinary examples of civic courage in Latin America in recent times,” said the president of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Jørgen Watne Frydnes, in Oslo.

Mrs. Machado “has been a key figure in fostering unity within a once deeply divided po