US EditionWhite House says Nobel Committee puts 'politics over peace'
Maria Corina Machado won for her fight for democracy in Venezuela while the White House criticized the decision as politicized, despite Trump's role in multiple peace deals, officials said.
- On Friday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced Maria Corina Machado as the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner, selecting her from 338 nominees.
- Known for more than two decades of activism, Machado has spent over two decades advocating democratic rights and was disqualified from the 2023 presidential primaries by the Venezuelan government.
- 841 people are currently imprisoned in Venezuela, and Machado told Euronews, `We are in a situation of maximum persecution, and practically all the leaders that had to do with the organisation of the elections are currently either in hiding, exiled, or refugeed abroad, or detained`.
- President Donald Trump was denied the prize despite being credited with ending seven wars, and White House communications director Steven Cheung accused the Nobel committee of placing politics over peace.
- The prize includes eleven million Swedish kronor , and Jorgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Nobel Peace Prize committee, said the panel seeks to shut out public lobbying.
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Venezuela's Nobel Peace Prize highlights the country’s democratic struggle
Opposition leader María Corina Machado’s win was received with both applause and criticism throughout the worldOriginally published on Global VoicesImage via Caracas Chronicles, used with permission. María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition politician who has been in hiding since January this year, was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, October 10. Her award marks Venezuela’s first individual Nobel Prize in any category; she is…
María Corina Machado has good reason to tie President Trump to her Nobel Prize win
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María Corina Machado’s fight for liberty
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Why didn't Trump deserve the Nobel Peace Prize? Let me count the ways
I’ll admit to great relief that Donald Trump didn’t receive the Nobel Peace Prize, something for which he’d been shamelessly campaigning for months. I was firmly in the “anyone but Trump” camp but also heartened to see that the Nobel committee chose a worthy recipient, Maria Corina Machado of Venezuela.Ms. Machado is everything that Trump isn’t, based on the criteria for which Nobel recipients are evaluated. Machado was awarded the prize accordi…
International Organizations and Activists Reject Far-Right Machado Nobel Peace Prize - Venezuelanalysis
Caracas, October 13, 2025 (venezuelanalysis.com) – Latin American social movements and regional leaders rejected the Nobel Committee’s decision to award the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan far-right leader María Corina Machado. Machado’s prize was announced on Friday, leading several social movements to issue communiqués condemning the verdict and recalling the US-backed Machado’s violent and anti-democratic track record. Mesa Ecuménica, a…
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