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 Venezuela and her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.” The victory of Machado, daughter of Henrique Machado Zuloaga and Corina Parisca Pérez, a psychologist, comes as a qu

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