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Nobel Peace Prize

Defiant Return

Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado’s sudden appearance in Oslo was not simply a personal triumph after months in hiding; it was a calculated political act that reopened Venezuela’s unresolved democratic question.

Triumph of Will~II

The situation worsened and in 1968 Nixon won the election with a promise to end the war in Vietnam. However, Nixon continued with the bombing including North Vietnam with the aim of bringing the Communists to the negotiating table.

Cultivating peace

It was in 1965 that the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize amidst much brouhaha that did not escape even a class V student that I then was.