OSLO – Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts in promoting democratic rights in her home country, Euronews quoted the awards committee as saying on Friday.
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced on Friday.
“As the leader of the democracy movement in Venezuela, María Corina Machado is one of the most extraordinary examples of civilian courage in Latin America in recent times,” the committee said in a statement.
“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,” it added.
The award ceremony will be held on December 10, the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, a wealthy Swedish industrialist and the inventor of dynamite who founded the prizes.
