Opponent of Maduro regime receives award and praise for keeping ‘flame of democracy burning’
The Venezuelan opposition politician María Corina Machado has won the Nobel peace prize for her dogged struggle to rescue the South American country from its fate as “a brutal, authoritarian state”.
Machado, 58, a conservative often described as Venezuela’s Iron Lady, has spent the last year living in hiding after her political movement was widely believed to have beaten the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, in the July 2024 presidential election.
María Corina Machado profile (New York Times en español)
Earlier today, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Maria Corina Machado, leader of the democracy movement in Venezuela. The peace prize has been awarded to 140 laureates, of which 112 are individuals and 28 are organisations. Discover more statistics about the Nobel Peace Prize: bit.ly/3XYINdr