Maria Corina Machado
Source: Africa Publicity
Maria Corina Machado, the opposition leader of Venezuela, has won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.
The Prize was awarded to by the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Islo.
It marks the highlight of the week of announcements from October 6 to 13.
A total of 338 nominations had been submitted for the award, including 244 individuals and 94 organisations.
United States President Donald Trump was among the nominees and has repeatedly insisted he deserves the prize. Trump claimed credit for stopping multiple wars.
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But observers have said his chances of winning the 124-year-old prize were slim. Other contenders included Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms and the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Each prize is worth 11 million Swedish kronor (about $1.2m), and winners will be given a diploma and gold medal on December 10 – the anniversary of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel’s death.
Last year, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Japanese anti-nuclear group Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
In 2024, Maria Corina Machado was barred from running in presidential elections wob by President Nicolas Maduro.
On hearing that she had won the prestigious award, she said “I’m in shock… shocked with joy.”
According to the Nobel Committee, it recognised her “tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela” and “her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy”.
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