US EditionVenezuela's Maduro Calls Nobel Peace Laureate Machado a 'Demonic Witch'
Maduro's military drills respond to political pressure after Machado won the Nobel Prize for promoting democracy amid Venezuela’s ongoing crisis, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.
- The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded Maria Corina Machado the 2025 Nobel Prize, framing it as an indictment of Nicolas Maduro's authoritarian rule and Venezuela's crisis.
- As a longtime opponent, Maria Corina Machado has championed neoliberal reforms including PDVSA privatization and led Vente Venezuela after winning the Opposition primary with 92% support.
- Amid rising U.S.-Venezuela tensions, the Donald Trump administration intensified pressure on Venezuela, while the Norwegian Nobel Committee praised Maria Corina Machado’s unity and non-violence, despite Chavistas calling her a ‘reactionary international’.
- Repression and contested results have led to Opposition leaders claiming Mr. Urrutia won while the National Election Council certified nearly 52% for Nicolas Maduro, President of Venezuela.
- With an estimated 7.7 million citizens having fled, Venezuela's crude oil exports 95% deepen economic woes, while critics of Nobel Prize precedents question the Norwegian Nobel Committee's choice.
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Venezuela's Maduro calls Nobel Peace laureate Machado a 'demonic witch'
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday called opposition leader Maria Corina Machado a “demonic witch,” two days after she won the Nobel Peace Prize for promoting democracy. The Nobel Committee praised Machado’s “tireless work” for human rights in Venezuela, long at odds with Washington since the Trump administration deployed warships nearby.
Maria Corina Machado | Maduro’s foe, Trump’s friend
The right-wing politician, who has supported U.S.-led sanctions against Venezuela, has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize at a time when Washington is building up troops in the southern Caribbean Sea after declaring the government in Caracas a ‘narco-terror cartel’
Caracas, Venezuela. Venezuela's president Nicolás Maduro organized new military exercises this Saturday in response to the deployment of the United States in the Caribbean, just a day after opposition leader María Corina Machado received the Nobel Peace Prize 2025. Maduro, who so far has not pronounced himself on the Nobel Prize, denounced a “send” of Donald Trump's administration and reiterated that Venezuela has “the right to peace” in the mid…
Nobel laureate Maria Corina Machado: The face and fire of Venezuela’s opposition
CARACAS, Oct 11 — Maria Corina Machado, a fearless activist with rock-star appeal, is the face of opposition to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s iron-fisted regime.Hailed as “la libertadora”, in an allusion to Venezuelan independence hero Simon “The Liberator” Bolivar, Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday for her work.“Is this for real? I can’t believe it!” she said in conversation with exiled opposition presidential candidat…
Javier Tolcachier The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to hand over the Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado, a radical opposition far-right to the Bolivarian Revolution government. Political bias is evident. Among the 338 nominees this year – several of them humanitarian organizations and pacifist activists – the group in charge decided to grant the presidency to those who on numerous occasions encouraged the imposition of sanctions, …
The dictator Nicolas Maduro (photo) made his first public statement this Sunday, 13, after the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize to the leader of the Venezuelan opposition, María Corina Machado. On the day of baptism as the day of the Indian Resistance, Maduro, without mentioning the name of María Corina, called the opposition leader of “demonic storm”. “If... The post Maduro called María Corina’s “demonic storm” after the Nobel Peace appear…
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