Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize. No gong for Trump, though Venezuela’s Iron Lady is no slouch…
When Barack Obama won the Peace Prize in 2009, less than eight months into his first term, the Nobel Committee applauded his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”. He also supposedly gave the world “hope for a better future“. Apparently the ‘hope’ of peace was good enough to win the prize outright back then. The standards are slightly higher now…
