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Maria Corina Machado: from engineer to icon of defianceA global moment that rattled Caracas

Venezuela just had a full-on diplomatic meltdown. 

Days after opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize, Nicolas Maduro’s government abruptly shut down its embassy in Norway. Yeah, that’s the same country that hands out the award.

The official line is a vague “foreign service restructuring.” The real story? Venezuela’s heavy authoritarian regime is throwing a fit because its most famous dissident just got one of the world’s top honours for, well, standing up to them.

Norway’s foreign ministry said the move was “regrettable” but stayed chill about it, reminding everyone that the Nobel Committee acts independently. Caracas, meanwhile, doubled down, closing its embassy in Australia too. Meanwhile, they opened new embassies in Zimbabwe and Burkina Faso, countries the officials called “strategic partners against hegemonic pressures.” In other words, these new Venezuela’s friends won’t ask uncomfortable questions.

Maria Corina Machado: from engineer to icon of defiance

Maria Corina Machado’s rise isn’t another common political tale. A Caracas-born industrial engineer turned democracy warrior, she co-founded Sumate in 2002 to track elections rigged under ex-leader Hugo Chavez. By 2011, she was already in parliament, until the regime banned her for calling out human rights abuses.

She didn’t renounce and she launched Vente Venezuela, a movement that’s basically the spine of what’s left of the country’s democratic resistance. Even after being barred from running in 2023, she backed opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia. She rallied a million volunteers and exposed massive electoral fraud.

Her courage comes with a huge cost: assassination attempts, exile threats, and arrests of her closest allies. But she’s kept going all this time. Her daughter even accepted an international award on her behalf earlier this year, saying: “My mother speaks out despite the risks.”

A global moment that rattled Caracas

Machado’s Nobel wasn’t some fluke. She’d already won international backing, from U.S. senators to the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize. Her movement grew into a kind of symbol of non-violent defiance. And when the Nobel Committee praised her for promoting “a peaceful transition to freedom,” it was basically a diplomatic thunderclap heard across Caracas.

Maduro’s reaction? He called her literally a “demonic witch.” Then he packed up his embassy and stormed out of Norway, the same way an angry man leaves a party.

But for millions of Venezuelans living under censorship, scarcity, and exile, Machado’s win was a rare moment of hope. It was also a reminder that even when dictators try to shut doors, the world’s still watching.

Read here more news from Norway.


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