Indeed, if Maria Corina Machado, winner of the 2025 Prize for Peace, was the kind of “brave and committed champion of peace… a woman who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness,” as the Norwegian Nobel Committee claims, the entire world should be concerned, as much about the politics of the recipient of the honour as the wisdom of those who have been bestowing it annually, unfailingly, since 1901.

Absurd enough, the European parliament, in 2024, conferred the Andrei Sakharov Prize for the Freedom of Thought, named after the Soviet nuclear physicist and 1975 Nobel laureate, jointly upon Machado and Edmundo Gonzalez, widely believed to have won the Venezuelan 2024 presidential election.

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