María Corina Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2025 “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela” under the authoritarian rule of President Nicolas Maduro. File
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Venezuelan Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who on Friday (October 10, 2025) won the Nobel Peace Prize, said she was confident the opposition would succeed in securing a peaceful transition to democracy in her country. She also said her award was an “immense recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans”.
“This immense recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is an impetus to conclude our task: to achieve freedom,” she wrote on X.
Speaking on her win, Ms. Machado said that her compatriots were counting on the United States to help achieve freedom from the authoritarian rule of President Nicolas Maduro.
“We are on the threshold of victory and today more than ever we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our main allies to achieve freedom and democracy,” Machado said in a post on social media X.
“We’re not there yet. We’re working very hard to achieve it, but I’m sure that we will prevail,” she told Kristian Berg Harpviken, the director of the Nobel Institute and secretary of the Nobel Committee, when he called to inform her that she had won the 2025 prize.
“This is certainly the biggest recognition to our people that certainly deserve it,” she said, adding: “I am just, you know, one person. I certainly do not deserve this.”
With inputs from AFP, Reuters
Published – October 10, 2025 05:07 pm IST
