Venezuelan opposition figure Maria Corina Machado receives the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

The Norwegian Nobel Committee decided today, Friday, to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado.

Supporting peace and democracy

The official website said For the Nobel Prizes: "Maria Corina Machado fulfills all three criteria set forth in Alfred Nobel’s will for choosing Peace Prize Winner She brought her country’s opposition together"
She has never wavered in her resistance to the militarization of Venezuelan society. She was steadfast in her support of a peaceful transition to democracy.
Maria Corina Machado showed that the tools of democracy are also tools of peace. It embodies the hope of a different future, where citizens’ fundamental rights are protected and their voices are heard.

Venezuelan opposition leader and activist. As a Member of Parliament, she has emerged as one of the strongest and most critical voices of the regime’s institutional abuses, as well as repression and serious economic problems, And recently the humanitarian crisis that Venezuela is going through. Over the past 10 years, she has faced numerous harassment, restrictions, arbitrary decisions, and death threats from the Maduro regime as a result of her tireless campaigning for a free and democratic Venezuela.

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