Venezuelan opposition figure María Corina Machado has been named the recipient of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to secure a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy, SİA reports, citing foreign media.
The announcement came amid speculation that U.S. President Donald Trump might emerge as a surprise candidate after brokering a Gaza ceasefire. However, the Norwegian Nobel Committee highlighted Machado’s relentless advocacy for democratic rights in Venezuela as “one of the most extraordinary examples of civilian courage in Latin America in recent times.”
Machado, who has been barred from running for president and currently lives in hiding, “keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness” in the “brutal, authoritarian” regime of President Nicolás Maduro, the committee said.
In a video posted to X, Machado expressed that she was “in shock” upon hearing the news.
Aged 58, Machado has long been a vocal critic of Maduro’s United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), which first rose to power under Hugo Chávez in the late 1990s, with Maduro succeeding him in 2013. An industrial engineer by training and a former legislator in the National Assembly, Machado has faced assassination attempts and legal persecution. She was intended to be the opposition’s presidential candidate last year but was prohibited from running.
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