"Last week, the Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado made a daring escape from her home country to Norway, where she was honored as winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. The team that extracted her had several worries-including the risk that American forces in the Caribbean would strike the boats used in the operation, members told The Wall Street Journaland The New York Times."
"Luckily, Machado avoided F-16s and drones on her way to Oslo, but the outcome her rescuers feared would have been remarkable: the man who campaigned frantically to win the Nobel Peace Prize inadvertently killing the woman who did, as part of a likely illegal series of boat strikes that may climax with a land war in South America."
"Yesterday, Trump-who has deemed himself the " peace president"-escalated his belligerence against Venezuela, announcing a blockade of sanctioned oil tankers and demanding that the government "return to the United States of America all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us." This is difficult to parse, but the Trump aide Stephen Miller suggests that it refers to past nationalization of the petroleum industry. In any case, a blockade could be an act of war under international law."
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado escaped to Norway and received the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize after a risky extraction. The extraction team feared strikes on the boats, including from American forces operating in the Caribbean. Machado avoided F-16s and drones en route to Oslo, but rescuers warned that a strike could have killed her and might be part of likely illegal boat strikes that could escalate into a land war in South America. President Trump announced a blockade of sanctioned Venezuelan oil tankers, demanded return of alleged stolen oil and assets, and suggested land strikes, raising legal and congressional-authorization concerns.
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