Who is Maria Corina Machado?

Politicians are fond of saying that they got into politics to make things better for people but the sad truth is that once they get into a position to actually do anything, they don't but one World leader I always considered a shining example of what all World leaders should aspire to was Venezuela's Hugo Chavez.
He inherited a country from the brutal right wing dictator Carlos Andrés Pérez and his first action was to nationalise the country's oil reserves and set about using the revenue from the oil business to be used to finance social and development programs.
He began literacy campaigns, built free medical centres and hospitals and constructed schools in the poorest neighbourhoods as well as subsidising supermarkets to reduce the cost of food to the poorest families.
Before he sadly died in 2013, he named Nicolás Maduro as his successor and then, it all turned horribly wrong because Maduro was no Chavez and he suppressed demonstrations, rigged elections and became so corrupt and authoritarian that it is estimated that eight million Venezuelans have been forced to flee the country.
Into the spotlight stepped Maduro's political rival, Maria Corina Machado, who yesterday won the Nobel Peace Prize for 'her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela' although she had to accept the award in hiding because Maduro has disqualified her from public office, vilified and repeatedly threatened her life
The award makes Machado the first Venezuelan to receive the Nobel peace prize, and she has refused exile and rejected violence and talks of advancing human rights, an inclusive democracy and social justice she is in a good position to talk about it as she came from a rich and powerful business family and was educated in exclusive schools in Venezuela.
Her economic agenda talks of democratic renewal and economic reforms with social protection and address inequalities in such things as healthcare and education in Venezuela.
The Nobel Prize should send a signal that global institutions are watching and recognising her as a symbol of peace and changing inequality and although Chevez was very left wing, Machado is very much on the political right and terms like equality and human rights are not normally allies of that side of the political fence, she acknowledges that of Chavez: 'We have to recognize the positive things that have been done' so if she will be another brilliant Chavez or just yet another right wing dunce, we will hopefully find out one day.