What did Maria Corina Machado, winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, do?



Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. Venezuela is under dictatorship, and the Nobel Prize committee recognized Machado's 'tireless efforts to promote the democratic rights of the Venezuelan people' and 'her struggle for a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.'

Maria Corina Machado – Facts – 2025 - NobelPrize.org

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2025/machado/facts/

Venezuela is a South American republic, but the president wields great power and the country remains a de facto dictatorship. The current president, Nicolas Maduro, has served three terms since 2013, but there have been many allegations of election fraud.

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Machado, a Venezuelan born in 1967, studied engineering and finance as a student and founded the Atenea Foundation, an organization supporting street children, in 1992. In 2002, he co-founded the election monitoring group Sumate, and in 2010 was first elected to Congress with a record number of votes.

Machado founded the Vente Venezuela party in 2012, but was stripped of his seat in parliament in 2014 for 'leading protests against the Maduro regime.' He continued his activities and announced his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election in 2023. However, in January 2024, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Maduro regime's decision to ban Machado from holding public office, effectively blocking his candidacy.

Machado supported opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez, but President Maduro was re-elected president with 51% of the vote. As mentioned above, many people believe the 2024 presidential election was fraudulent, but the government has declared victory and further strengthened its grip on power.

The Nobel Committee awarded Machado the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her 'tireless efforts to promote the democratic rights of the Venezuelan people' and 'her struggle for a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.' The Committee warned that democracy is being undermined, stating, 'The international community is in a state of decline. Democracy is the right to freely express opinions, to vote, and to be represented by an elected government. Democracy is the foundation of peace within and between nations.'




Machado is currently in hiding for his own safety, and it is unclear whether he will be able to attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. Machado has been informed of the decision to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, and you can hear his voice when he received the news in the video below.

First reactions | Maria Corina Machado, Nobel Peace Prize 2025 | Telephone interview - YouTube


Machado also posted a thank you message on his Facebook account.


Polymarket , a web service that allows users to predict the outcomes of real-world events and place bets, offered bets on who would win the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize . Until just before the announcement, Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of Russian democracy activist Alexei Navalny, who died in 2024, was the top choice.



While few users predicted Machado's win before the announcement, a user named

dirtycup bet $68,373.81 (approximately 10.42 million yen) on Machado's win and won $99,008.51 (approximately 15.09 million yen). This user, who calls himself dirtycup, had never participated in Polymarket betting before, and his remarkable achievement of 'betting for the first time on the day the Nobel Peace Prize winner was announced, betting a large sum of money only on Machado, and winning about 5 million yen,' has led to suspicions that he is ' a member of the Nobel Prize selection committee, or perhaps an avid supporter of Machado .'



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