In Venezuela’s ‘darkest hours’, will peace prize boost opposition or backfire?

<p>María Corina Machado’s Nobel award puts focus on country but analysts doubt it will produce democratic change</p><p>In March 2019 as a nationwide blackout plunged Venezuela into darkness, hundreds of citizens huddled on a basketball court in the city of Maracaibo to hear their leader promise to guide them out of the gloom.</p><p>“We are, quite literally, living through our darkest hour. But these are also the brightest of times,” María Corina Machado told supporters as they used mobile phones to illuminate the night.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/12/venezuela-maria-corina-machado-nobel-peace-prize-boost-or-backfire">Continue reading...</a>