Opposition chief Maria Corina Machado, who has been banned from working for workplace, campaigns for presidential candidate Edmundo González, in Maracaibo, Venezuela, Thursday, Could 2, 2024.
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Venezuela’s opposition chief María Corina Machado has gained this yr’s Nobel Peace Prize.
In an announcement on Friday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee stated Machado’s tireless work selling democratic rights for the individuals of Venezuela is “one of the most extraordinary examples of civilian courage in Latin America in recent times.”
Machado has been one of many staunchest critics of the highly effective United Socialist Celebration of Venezuela (PSUV) because it first got here to energy within the late Nineteen Nineties.
A former legislator within the Venezuelan Nationwide Meeting, Machado has been shot at, focused by federal prosecutors, banned from working for workplace, and compelled into hiding by the federal government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who succeeded PSUV founder Hugo Chávez in 2013.
“I trust the Venezuelan people, and I have no doubt that the result of our fight will be the liberation of Venezuela. Maduro is totally isolated, weaker than ever. And our people want and need to know that I’m here with them,” Machado advised NPR’s All Issues Thought-about final yr.
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