{"id":50789,"date":"2025-10-11T05:34:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T05:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=50789"},"modified":"2025-10-11T05:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T05:42:11","slug":"nobel-peace-prize-winner-maria-corina-machado-revived-venezuelas-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=50789","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado revived Venezuela&#8217;s opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reuters:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oct 10  &#8211; Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, a 58-year-old industrial engineer, was awarded the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/nobel-peace-prize-winner-be-announced-year-overshadowed-by-trump-2025-10-10\/\">Nobel Peace Prize<\/a>\u00a0on Friday. Over the past two years, she has reenergized a politically disengaged population after more than a decade of economic and social collapse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Machado has been in hiding in Venezuela since 2024, when electoral authorities allied with President Nicolas Maduro declared Maduro&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/venezuelas-top-court-ratifies-maduro-election-win-government-tightens-control-2024-08-22\/\">reelection<\/a>&nbsp;in a vote widely seen as rigged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government never posted official election results, but results collected by the opposition, verified by an independent election monitor, found the Machado-backed candidate had won in a landslide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Married to a constitutional lawyer and mother of three, Machado impressed both experts and ordinary citizens with her work ethic and ability to connect with voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her message was simple: Maduro leads a &#8220;mafia&#8221; that has looted the country and represses its people. Venezuelans are fed up, and the fight for democracy will continue until the government changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Maduro government has called Machado a fascist and terrorist, accusing her of fomenting a right-wing conspiracy to overthrow his rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters: Oct 10 &#8211; Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, a 58-year-old industrial engineer, was awarded the\u00a0Nobel Peace Prize\u00a0on Friday. Over the past two years, she has reenergized a politically disengaged population after more than a decade of economic and social collapse. Machado has been in hiding in Venezuela since 2024, when electoral authorities allied with President Nicolas Maduro declared Maduro&#8217;s&nbsp;reelection&nbsp;in a vote widely seen as rigged. The government never posted official election results, but results collected by the opposition, verified by an independent election monitor, found the Machado-backed candidate had won in a landslide. Married to a constitutional lawyer&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50791,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50789\/revisions\/50791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}