Oslo/Caracas: María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan politician, has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for her decades-long fight for democracy and civil liberties in the Latin American country. The Prize was announced on Friday, October 10, by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which hailed her as “one of the most extraordinary examples of civilian courage in Latin America in recent times.”

The Committee said Machado was being recognised as “the leader of the democracy movement in Venezuela” and for her unwavering commitment to “a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”

Once among Latin America’s most stable democracies, Venezuela’s institutions began to crumble after Hugo Chávez came to power in 1999, followed by Nicolás Maduro in 2013. Over the years, the governme

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