The winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize is Venezuelan politician Maria Corina Machado

The award goes to the person or organisation that’s done the most “for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses”

US President Donald Trump had led a public campaign to win the award, but nominations closed in January - at the start of his second term in office

  • ToastedRavioli@midwest.social
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    5 months ago

    Its hard not to see this as at least mildly trolling Trump by giving it to a Venezuelan, considering he seems pretty dead set on starting a war with Venezuela while also never shutting up about how he thinks he deserves the peace prize

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      5 months ago

      Well, she’s actually on the same page. Machado has supported an American military intervention to oust the Maduro government.