After reading this morning's news, I'm happy to see that a brave, deserving proponent of democracy has won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado wins 2025 Nobel Peace Prize
Machado, who has been barred from running for president and lives in hiding, "keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness" in President Nicolás Maduro's "brutal, authoritarian" Venezuela, the committee said. . . . . .
In a video of Machado receiving the news posted to the Nobel Prize website she expresses shock at winning.
"Oh my God, I have no words." she says.
"I am just one person. I certainly do not deserve this," she continues, adding it is the "achievement of a whole society."
The 58-year-old has been one of the staunchest critics of Maduro's ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), which first came to power in the late 1990s under founder Hugo Chávez. Maduro succeeded Chávez in 2013.
An industrial engineer by profession and a former legislator in the Venezuelan National Assembly, Machado has been shot at and targeted by federal prosecutors. Last year she was meant to be the opposition's presidential candidate in July elections but was banned from contesting the vote.
Instead she threw her backing behind a different party, led by Edmundo González Urrutia. The pro-Maduro National Electoral Council claimed that President Maduro had won a third term with 51% of the vote, but the opposition said the vote had been rigged and evidence showed Urrutia had won by a landslide.
Election observers noted numerous irregularities in the polls, which were widely dismissed by the international community as neither free nor fair.
Thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets in protest, but they were quashed by the government, and Machado went into hiding in August 2024 after threats to her life. However, she did not flee the country and remains in Venezuela where she's vowed to fight on.
Elijah and Dakota delivered our new dryer yesterday.
They were very efficient and friendly.
They deliver appliances for Home Depot all around the area, as far north as Canada and down into Oregon, so they put in the miles.
They went off with a few mint Oreos, so I think they were happy delivering to the Lovestead.
Twasn't more than a couple of minutes before the dryer started its first spin.
We are happy to be back in business with our laundry.
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