You know there was a point to this award, although she deserves it..

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c1l80g1qe4gt

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has been awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize
"I'm in shock... shocked with joy," says the 58-year-old on hearing the news

Machado was barred from running in last year's presidential elections won by President Nicolás Maduro. The polls were widely dismissed internationally as neither free nor fair

She has largely been in hiding since those elections - here's a profile by our South America correspondent:

The Nobel committee recognised her "tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela" and "her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy"

Donald Trump had led a public campaign to win the award, and the White House communication director responded to this year's choice by saying the Nobel Committee had "proved they place politics over peace"

Says the hypocrite who tried to get them to do just that..lol