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María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize—but the fight for democracy is far from over. November 13, 2025, 3:17 PM Comment icon View Comments ( )

Machado looks directly into the camera, smiling, as she holds one hand over her heart. She wears rosary beads and stands among a crowd of people beneath a blue sky with a few scattered white clouds.

As María Corina Machado drove through rural Venezuela to the city of Maracaibo, hundreds of people waited for her along the roadside. She was dressed in white and wore rosaries around her neck, as usual, and Venezuelans gathered to cheer her on, touch her, and hand her their babies for a blessing. They came from afar, despite few resources and the risk of government retaliation, “just to

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