Venezuela's Machado Bets All on Imminent Regime Change as Nobel Nears

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado will soon accept the Nobel Peace Prize. At the same time, she is making a high-risk political prediction. Machado says Venezuela's current government will fall soon. She is staking her strategy—and her movement's hopes—on this belief of an imminent political transition. The Nobel committee awarded her the prize for her long, non-violent fight for democracy. The ceremony comes as internal pressure on Venezuela's regime grows due to economic crisis and widespread protests. Machado's claim is a bold gamble. If the transition does not happen quickly, her supporters could lose faith. The government has previously outlasted similar predictions of its collapse. All attention is now on whether her Nobel Prize moment will coincide with the political change she promises.