Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Venezuelan Opposition Leader María Corina Machado

White House Calls Nobel Prize to Venezuelan Machado 'Politics Over Peace'

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize goes to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, prompting White House claims of political bias

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The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has gone to María Corina Machado, one of the most prominent faces of Venezuela's opposition. The committee's language is familiar - "rights," "peaceful transition" - but the story behind it isn't. Machado's record blends volunteer election networks with long-running fights over foreign funding; her name has appeared in cases tied to efforts to unseat the government - charges she rejects; and a country remains split ove…

Maria Corina Machado Earns Nobel Peace Prize; Self-Serving Dictators Need Not Apply

I am ashamed to live in a nation whose authoritarian, anti-democratic ruler claims he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than the actual winner, Maria Corina Machado, a woman fighting for democracy against the dictatorial regime of her Venezuela. Anyone who personally campaigns for the Nobel Peace Prize is working for himself, not for peace, and does not deserve a Nobel. That idea is built into the Nobel Peace Prize criteria, which exclude self…

Machado: Peace Prize Tells Venezuelans 'We Are Not Alone'

Maria Corina Machado is the leader of the pro-democracy movement in Venezuela, which is under a dictatorship so brutal she has been forced to live in hiding.

Venezuelan wins Nobel Peace Prize

OSLO, Norway — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her struggle to achieve a democratic transition in the South American nation, winning recognition as a woman "who keeps the flame of democracy…

The Woman Who Took on a Dictator—and Won a Nobel Peace Prize

On Friday in Oslo, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Machado, who has been in hiding ever since last year’s fraudulent elections, is widely regarded as the force keeping the country’s opposition alive in the face of Nicolás Maduro’s increasingly authoritarian regime. Machado, the committee said, is a “brave and committed champion of peace,” who “keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growin…