WORLD_ Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Venezuelan Opposition Leader Maria Corina Machado

THE EPOCH TIMES 

Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Venezuelan Opposition Leader Maria Corina Machado 

There had been calls from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and families of Israeli hostages for U.S. President Donald Trump to be awarded the prize.

Former Congresswoman and opposition leader Maria Corina Machado holds up the Venezuelan flag outside of the Attorney General Office in Caracas, Venezuela, on Dec. 3, 2014. Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo 

Victoria Friedman 

10/10/2025|Updated: 10/10/2025 


Maria Corina Machado, a Venezuelan politician and former opposition presidential candidate, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Oct. 10 “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.” 

The Norwegian Nobel Committee said in a statement that Machado was “a brave and committed champion of peace” and a woman who “keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.” 

Ahead of last year’s Venezuelan presidential election, the socialist regime of President Nicolas Maduro allegedly targeted real or perceived political opponents. 

In the lead-up to the election, “authorities intensified repression, targeting human rights defenders and opposition members with arrests and disqualifications, and tightening restrictions on civic space,” according to Human Rights Watch.

Machado was an opposition presidential candidate but was disqualified from running against Maduro in the 2024 election. She went into hiding and has not been seen in public since January. 

“Machado has been a key, unifying figure in a political opposition that was once deeply divided – an opposition that found common ground in the demand for free elections and representative government,” the committee said. 

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