The Nobel Committee has made its choice — and it wasn’t Donald Trump . In Oslo, the 2025 Peace Prize was awarded to María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who has spent decades fighting for democracy under one of Latin America’s most entrenched authoritarian regimes. Forced into hiding, barred from elections, and threatened with imprisonment, Machado has become a symbol of civic resistance against President Nicolás Maduro’s rule — a movement that has endured despite every attempt by the world’s most powerful country to remove him from power. The decision to give the award to a Venezuelan opposition figure carries a distinctly Obama-era echo — just as Trump’s obsession with the Nobel stems partly from his belief that Obama did not deserve his 2009 prize. Ironically, Ob

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