Venezuelan pro-democracy campaigner María Corina Machado has won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.

Despite an unprecedented – and public – campaign for the accolade by Donald Trump , the Norway-based prize committee chose Machado, in recognition of her “tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela”.

Who is María Corina Machado?

Now living in hiding and blocked from running for office, Machado is Venezuela’s main opposition leader and has, over two decades of resistance to authoritarianism, “hiked overpasses, walked highways, ridden motorcycles, sought shelter in supporters’ homes” and “seen her closest collaborators detained and persecuted”, said The Associated Press .

Born in Caracas in 1967, she studied engineering and finance and spent a short time working in

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