Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, awarded with the Nobel Peace Price on Friday morning, has a decades-long track record of opposing the Venezuelan socialist regime established by late dictator Hugo Chávez and now led by Nicolás Maduro.
Machado dedicated her award to the people of Venezuela and to President Donald Trump for his “decisive” support of the Venezuelan cause.
Machado, an industrial engineer and former lawmaker, is the leader of Vente Venezuela, the only mainstream center-right party that exists in the country. She has remained in hiding since the aftermath of the fraudulent July 28, 2024, presidential election, facing continued threats of arrest from the Maduro regime under a litany of dubious allegations such as “treason to the fatherland.”
Most of the threats have typically come from Interior Minister and longtime suspected drug lord Diosdado Cabello, who has publicly threatened to retaliate against Machado for her support of American sanctions and political pressure against the rogue socialist regime.
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