For months now, much of the world's attention has been on Venezuela.

In September, the Trump administration began a series of strikes targeting what U.S. officials

call narco-terrorists and small vessels in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean.

Venezuela's been very bad, both in terms of drugs and sending some of the worst criminals anywhere in the world into our country.

Those strikes are ongoing. They've killed more than 80 people so far.

Then in October, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Karina Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

The committee called her a courageous defender of freedom who refused to stay silent.

She has been in hiding since last year, when Venezuela's president,

Nicholas Maduro claimed victory in an election widely seen by the international community as fraudulent.

Despite the risk of harassment, arrest and torture, citizens across the country held watch over the polling stations. They made sure the final

tallies were documented before the regime could destroy ballots and lie about the outcome.

That is the Nobel Committee chair, Jürgen Vatna Friedness, when announcing the prize.

Machado is expected to receive her award in person on Wednesday in Oslo.

And if she does, she might not be let back into her country.

Machado, who supports the Trump administration's campaign in the region, says the end of the

Maduro regime is imminent.

Here she is speaking to NPR in October.

You cannot have peace without freedom, and you cannot have freedom without strength when

you are facing a criminal structure.

Consider this. While the world is focused on Oslo and Maria Karina Machado's Nobel Peace

Prize, we wanted to get the view from inside her country.

Coming up, we speak with a journalist in Venezuela about what daily life is like there.

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