Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gestures at a protest ahead of the Friday inauguration of President Nicolas Maduro for his third term, in Caracas, Venezuela 9 January 2025;
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OSLO (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday 10 October 2025.
She won "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," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said in its citation.
The committee chose to focus on Venezuela at this time, in a year dominated by US President Donald Trump's repeated public statements that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.
Ahead of the announcement, experts on the award had said Trump would not win it as he is dismantling the international world order the Nobel committee cherishes.
The Nobel Peace Prize, worth 11 million Swedish crowns (€998,000) is due to be presented in Oslo on Wednesday 10 December 2025, the anniversary of the death of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, who founded the awards in his 1895 will.
