María Corina Machado wins 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for defending Venezuela's democracy. (Getty Images)
Engineering democracy
From boardroom discipline to ballot reform
The classroom and the barricade
Exile, endurance, and Vente Venezuela
Education as resistance
The Nobel and the new grammar of leadership
Epilogue: The engineer’s lesson
Oslo loves a plot twist. Donald Trump—who touts himself as the man who “stopped wars” from the Middle East to Central Africa and dabbled in DRC–Rwanda peacemaking—was back in the Nobel chatter. But when the card was read, it wasn’t his show. The laureate was María Corina Machado—Venezuela’s unflinching opposition figure who has spent two decades staring down authoritarian power with little more than a microphone, a spine of steel, and an industrial engineering degree. The Nobel Committee honoured Machado “for her tireless work to promote democratic rights for the people of Venezu
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