Washington, Dec 14 (The Conversation) Venezuelan Nobel Peace Laureate, Maria Corina Machado, plans to return home with her accolade “at the correct moment". You have to presume the right moment will be at such a time as her bitter political foe Nicolas Maduro is on holiday or otherwise unavoidably detained, or she certainly risks arrest as soon as she sets foot in her home country.

She told The Times of reports from a local NGO that young people were being detained for simply having the news of the Nobel prize on their phones. So she’d be well aware that the crime of being one of the most prominent opposition figureheads might place her in considerable legal jeopardy.

Perhaps that’s the point. It’s not up to us to speculate, but it’s not hard to imagine news of her arrest going down extr

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