{"id":15161,"date":"2026-01-04T04:48:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T04:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=15161"},"modified":"2026-01-05T02:56:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T02:56:40","slug":"nobel-prize-winner-machado-releases-letter-after-maduro-capture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=15161","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Prize winner Venezuelan Machado releases letter after Maduro capture."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is from CBS News. Hit the link for the full text of the letter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/maria-machado-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15162\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/articles\/venezuelan-opposition-leader-releases-letter-163800290.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/articles\/venezuelan-opposition-leader-releases-letter-163800290.html\">&#8220;The time for freedom has come!&#8221; Machado, who was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, wrote in the letter posted on X.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/maria-corina-machado-says-nobel-peace-prize-tells-venezuelans-we-are-not-alone\/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mar\u00eda Corina Machado<\/a> released a letter addressing the Venezuelan people after leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/live-updates\/venezuela-us-military-strikes-maduro-trump\/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/a> and his wife were captured in a U.S. operation overnight Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Machado, an opposition leader who has mostly been in hiding over the last year, said Maduro will &#8220;face international justice for the atrocious crimes committed against Venezuelans and against citizens of many other nations.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from CBS News. Hit the link for the full text of the letter. &#8220;The time for freedom has come!&#8221; Machado, who was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, wrote in the letter posted on X. Mar\u00eda Corina Machado released a letter addressing the Venezuelan people after leader Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and his wife were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consistent-ethic-of-life","category-economics-and-politics","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15164,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15161\/revisions\/15164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}