‘My God, my God.’ Watch Machado’s emotional reaction to hearing she won Peace Prize
Venezuelan opposition leader reacted with shock and emotion when she got a call from the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in Oslo, Norway, on Friday.
The committee posted on social media the call that Kristian Berg Harpviken, director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, made to Machado shortly before the prize was announced publicly.
“My God, my God… I have no words. Thank you so much, but I hope you understand that this is a movement. This is an achievement of a whole society. I am just one person, I certainly do not deserve it,” Machado said in the telephone conversation.
The committee described Machado as “one of the most extraordinary examples of civic courage in Latin America in recent times,” emphasizing that she has shown how “the tools of democracy are also those of peace.” It credited her with uniting a once-fractured opposition around a common goal: free elections and representative government.
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