Despite heavy campaigning by U.S. President Donald Trump for the prestigious recognition, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado for her democracy advocacy in the Latin American nation.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called Machado “the personification of resilience, tenacity, and patriotism” in a profile for her inclusion in this year’s TIME 100 list of the most influential people in the world.

The 58-year-old industrial engineer, nicknamed by journalists and commentators as Venezuela’s “Iron Lady,” has led the opposition to the country’s authoritarian President Nicolás Maduro, whose last two electoral victories have not been recognized by a number of countries, including the U.S. In the country’s 2024 election, Mach

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