{"id":80371,"date":"2025-10-10T10:47:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/?p=80371"},"modified":"2025-10-10T10:47:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:47:18","slug":"2025-nobel-peace-prize-awarded-to-maria-corina-machado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/2025-nobel-peace-prize-awarded-to-maria-corina-machado\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Mar\u00eda Corina Machado"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Venezuelan organizer and opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Despite President Donald Trump\u2019s campaign<\/a> for the honor, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize<\/a> was not, in fact, awarded to a leader who saw his Department of Defense converted into a Department of War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rather, the prize has been awarded to<\/a> Mar\u00eda Corina Machado, a Venezuelan movement builder<\/a> and politician who has worked to organize against the controlling regime of South American nation\u2019s current president, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The award was given \u201cfor 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,\u201d the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Though the White House responded to the decision with derision \u2013 claiming \u201cthe Nobel Committee proved they place politics over peace\u201d \u2013 Machado\u2019s work on behalf of her fellow Venezuelans over the years makes it an honor well-earned. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Machado, a former member of the Venezuelan  National Assembly, is the founder of both a voting rights nonprofit and an organization tasked with helping impoverished children. The 58-year-old industrial engineer also attempted to unseat Maduro, regarded by many as a dictator<\/a> with an illegitimate claim to power, in last year\u2019s elections. When he retained control in a widely derided election<\/a>, Machado went into hiding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the face of ever-expanding authoritarianism in Venezuela,\u201d Machado\u2019s work merits recognition, the committee added of its decision. For her efforts over the years, Machado has been given other honors, too \u2013 named to BBC’s 100 Women in 2018, and Time magazine’s 100 most influential people, also this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether or not she\u2019ll be able to accept the award in person remains unclear, however. \u201cThis is the discussion we have every year for all candidates, particularly when the person who receives the prize is, in fact, in hiding because of serious threats to her life,\u201d Jorgen Watne Frydnes, the chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, noted.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The opposition leader from Venezuela was given the distinction for her work in trying to lead her people \u201cfrom dictatorship to democracy,\u201d the award body said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":80372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"She has been honored \"for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela,\" the award body 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