Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on 10 October, winning recognition as a woman “who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.”

The former opposition presidential candidate was lauded for being a “key, unifying figure" in the once deeply divided opposition to President Nicolás Maduro's government , said Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

The US President Donald Trump missed out on the chance to bag the honour despite very powerful lobbying with him himself terming him a contender. Soon after Machado was declared the eventual winner, the White House criticised the Nobel Prize committee's decision, accusing the Nobel Committee of placing politics over peace.

"President Trump will continue making p

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