Venezuelan opposition leader, 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner

History offers no guarantees here. Change, when it comes, rarely arrives whole. It tests not only resolve, but patience. What matters now is not symbolism alone, but whether leadership can resist the gravity of revenge, honor process over impulse, and place the long work of rebuilding above the immediate rush of triumph.

The future will be decided not in raised hands or recognition statements, but in whether ordinary Venezuelans begin to see order replace exhaustion—and whether power, once unsettled, can be returned to institutions rather than personalities.