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THE TRUTH ABOUT: Venezuelan opposition leaders machado gonzalez win eu s top rights prize - Caught on Camera

Venezuelan opposition leader Mariana Corina Machado and presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia have won the EU Parliament's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought [File: Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo]

The European Union has awarded its top human rights prize to Venezuelan opposition leaders Maria Corina Machado and Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia.

The European Parliament announced the winners of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought on Thursday, honouring Machado and Gonzalez for “representing the people of Venezuela fighting to restore freedom and democracy”.

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