The Norwegian capital woke up to the news that the opposition leader would not be able to attend the ceremony and breathed a sigh of relief when the Nobel Institute confirmed that she was safe and on her way to the Scandinavian country. I will be in Oslo, she said in a call broadcast moments before the ceremony by the Norwegian institution, the latest chapter in a drama-filled story that has marked this year's award ceremony and whose final chapter has yet to be written.
In this mortal existence, we all have dreams. As a child, I wanted to be an astronaut, until I found out there's no Taco Bell on the International Space Station. That's the thing about dreams: they often lead to cruel disappointment. Such is the fate of President Donald Trump, his hope of winning a Nobel peace prize dashed not by a lack of fast food, but by common sense. The 2025 award instead went to the Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado,