María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan politician and democracy campaigner, has been named as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. Photograph: Gabriela Oraa / AFP
María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan politician and democracy campaigner, has been named as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Norway.
The winner was announced in a year overshadowed by a months-long campaign by US president Donald Trump to win what is arguably the world’s most prestigious award.
Norwegian Nobel committee chairman Jørgen Watne Frydnes commended Ms Machado as a “brave and committed champion of peace” who “keeps the flame of democracy burning during a growing darkness”.
Mr Trump has been outspoken about his desire for a prize won by four of his predecessors – Barack Obama in 2009, Jimmy Carter in 2002, Woodrow Wilson in 1919 and Theodore Roosevelt
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