Nobel Peace Prize Aspirant Trump Is a Master of Bellicose Threats
María Corina Machado fled Venezuela to receive her Nobel amid political unrest while Narges Mohammadi remains imprisoned in Iran after repeated arrests and torture, rights groups say.
- On October 10, 2025, María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize while Narges Mohammadi remains imprisoned since her December arrest in Iran.
- Iranian clerical rulers jail dissidents to reduce mass movement influence, while a 2022 report found Iran's ties to Venezuela include Hezbollah cells, prompting United States aims to block Iran's regional staging ground.
- Fleeing at night, María Corina Machado escaped Venezuela in disguise on a fishing skiff to Curaçao, then flew to Oslo to ensure her voice reached the ceremony.
- With Maduro's capture earlier this month, the United States warned its citizens to leave Venezuela while Delcy Rodríguez met John Ratcliffe to discuss cooperation.
- Mohammadi's prominence means she became the symbol of Iran's uprising, smuggling her Nobel speech out of jail to maintain her influence, as Ebadi stated on January 6.
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Machado’s escape from Venezuela caught on video
A newly released video shows Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado escaping the country in December 2025. Ms Machado, who had been in hiding and banned from public office, fled in early December to accept her Nobel Peace Prize in Norway. Video released by the US-based group Grey Bull Rescue shows a crew helping her board a boat in the middle of the night. “I am alive, I’m safe, and I’m very grateful,” Machado is heard saying to the c…
Venezuela, Iran, and Two Nobel Peace Prize Winners Fighting to be Heard
Two Nobel Prize–winning women helped ignite the upheavals in Venezuela and Iran—yet must now resort to extreme measures simply to be heard By Jennifer Gould As Iran burns—with thousands jailed, tortured, and killed by a theocracy that is desperate to preserve its power—and as Venezuela reels from the U.S. capture of Nicolás Maduro, two female Nobel Peace Prize winners who helped undercut these regimes now stand alone. One has been restrained by …
Nobel Peace Prize aspirant Trump is a master of bellicose threats
Donald Trump has coveted the Nobel Peace Prize throughout both of his presidential terms. He even said it would be a “great honor” to share the prize with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado. And he claims to have ended eight wars.However, recent events in Venezuela, where the current president, Nicolás Maduro, was captured by U.S military forces and flown to a prison in New York, have generated a warning for U.S. citizens to leave…
"I am Maria Corina Machado. I am alive, safe and very grateful." The images are creepy. In the middle of the night, in the heat of a storm, the leader...
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