2025 Nobel Peace Prize

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, an international peace prize established according to the will of Alfred Nobel, was announced on 10 October 2025 by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo, Norway. It was awarded to María Corina Machado of Venezuela. The prize was presented at the ceremony on 10 December 2025 in Oslo, given to her daughter on her behalf. The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised her as "one of the most extraordinary examples of civilian courage in Latin America in recent times".

At the time of the prize's announcement, Machado was in hiding inside Venezuela, fearing repression from the government of Nicolás Maduro. She secretly escaped the country to reach Oslo with the help of international allies, but vowed to return to Venezuela to continue opposing the Maduro regime. Machado said she dedicated her award to Donald Trump and after the 2026 United States intervention in Venezuela she gave him her Nobel medal as a recognition of his commitment to Venezuela's freedom, according to Machado.

María Corina Machado

Machado was born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1967. She established the Atenea Foundation in 1992 to help children in Caracas. In 2002, she was one of the founders of Súmate, an electoral monitoring group. Machado was an elected member of the National Assembly of Venezuela from 2010 to 2014 when she was expelled by Nicolás Maduro's government. In 2023, she announced her candidacy for the 2024 presidential election but she was blocked from running and supported the alternative candidacy of Edmundo González. Opposition parties mobilized to systematically document and monitor the election. Their results showed González as the winner, but Maduro's administration declared victory instead.