In the stunned silence after Maduro\u2019s capture and the US airstrikes that lit up Caracas,<\/p>\n
a different image began to define Venezuela: Maria Corina Machado, Nobel medal at her throat,<\/p>\n
raising clasped hands with Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez.<\/p>\n
He is the man Washington and much of the world already recognize as the legitimate president;<\/p>\n
she is the woman Maduro\u2019s courts tried to erase from the ballot,<\/p>\n
only to amplify onto the global stage. Together, they now face a country scarred by blackouts, exile, and fear.<\/p>\n
A transitional government led by the two laureates would be less a coronation than a test.<\/p>\n
Can they fold chavistas back into civic life without vengeance?<\/p>\n
Can they tame hungry generals and desperate street movements at once? For millions of Venezuelans,<\/p>\n
hope has returned \u2014 but so has the terrifying possibility that, if they fail, the darkness will be worse than before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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