Maria Corina Machado Awarded Nobel Peace Prize 2025

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to promote democracy and human rights in Venezuela and for leading a peaceful struggle in a bid to end authoritarian rule in the country.

As the leader of the democracy movement in Venezuela, Maria Corina Machado is one of the most extraordinary examples of civilian courage in Latin America in recent times. She is receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy, Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said while speaking to reporters on Friday.

The Nobel Committee explicitly called her “a champion of peace who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.

Frydnes also repeated one of Machado’s famous quotes, while declaring the name of the recipient in Oslo: “Ms Machado stood up for free and fair elections more than 20 years ago. As she said: “It was a choice of ballots over bullets. In political office and in her service to organisations since then, Ms Machado has spoken out for judicial independence, human rights and popular representation. She has spent years working for the freedom of the Venezuelan people.

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