Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize 2025. Making the announcement, the committee commended Machado as a “brave and committed champion of peace” who “keeps the flame of democracy burning during a growing darkness”.

Responding to a question about dissidents’ lives being in danger after receiving a Nobel Prize, Nobel Committee president Jorgen Watne Frydnes said: “You are now touching upon some of the most difficult dilemmas of the [Nobel] Committee. This is the discussion we have for all the candidates, particularly when the person who receives the prize is in hiding because of serious threats to life. She [Maria Corina Machado] has been very active in Venezuela and will [continue] be. We are taking into consideration that this prize will supp

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