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Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado wins the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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

The head of the committee, Jurgen Watten Fredens, praised – in a statement reported by “Sky News” channel; The British – Machado, describing her as “a woman who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid increasing darkness.” Pointing out that she spent years working to achieve freedom.

The committee indicated – in a statement – that Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize “for her tireless work in promoting the democratic rights of the people of Venezuela.” And its struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

Last year, the Japanese peace organization “Nihon Hidankyo” She received the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to promote a world free of nuclear weapons, drawing on the testimonies of survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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