Venezuela’s Nobel Winner Plays 'Now You See Me, Now You Don’t' in Oslo
KEY POINTS
- •María Corina Machado, Venezuela’s leading opposition figure, won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize while in hiding.
- •Nicolás Maduro was accused of stealing the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election from Machado’s political movement.
- •Although she missed the Oslo ceremony, the Nobel Institute expects her arrival shortly after an ‘extreme danger’ journey.
Meet María Corina Machado, the 58-year-old Venezuelan conservative opposition star awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo despite playing hide-and-seek thanks to Nicolás Maduro’s ‘full democracy makeover’ involving an alleged stolen 2024 election. The Nobel Institute called her journey 'extreme danger,' presumably for dramatic effect since no Netflix deal announced yet. Speculation buzzed wildly whether Machado would crash the Oslo ceremony like a political action hero. She didn’t, but the Nobel folks promise she’ll arrive 'in the coming hours,' like a delayed flight from chaos-city Venezuela to Norway’s fjord zen. Meanwhile, secrecy and suspense reign supreme over Caracas to Scandinavia.
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Winning the Nobel but missing the party is the new power move. Who needs speeches when you’ve mastered international hide-and-seek?
Calling it an 'extreme danger' journey to Oslo sounds less like a noble quest and more like a reality show pitch.
Nobel committee awards peace prize to someone who’s apparently still stuck in The Venezuelan Vault of Mystery.
Source: Theguardian | Published: 12/10/2025 | Author: Camille Rodríguez Montilla in Oslo and Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
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