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Podcast: In Focus by The Hindu
Episode: Can Venezuela’s Nobel Peace Laureate Maria Corina Machado Inspire Change?
Description: She has been tear-gassed, threatened, and banned from office — yet MarÃa Corina Machado never stopped speaking for a silenced nation.
Now, at 58, Venezuela’s most determined dissident has been named the country’s first Nobel Peace Prize winner — and only the 20th woman to ever receive it.
An engineer turned opposition leader, she has spent years standing up to Nicolás Maduro’s regime in Venezuela, a government that jails critics and silences dissent.
Now in hiding, Machado continues to speak out — urging even soldiers to trade loyalty to power for loyalty to the people...