The Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado stated this Friday that the greatest tribute to Alfred Nobel, the Swedish magnate who created the Nobel Peace Prize, will be to guarantee the “transition to democracy” in Venezuela, where anti-Chavismo maintains that there was “fraud” in the presidential elections of July 2024, in which the electoral body proclaimed the victory of Nicolás Maduro.
“The Venezuelan people have received this recognition from the Norwegian Nobel Committee with immense emotion and renewed hope,” said the former deputy in a message published in English on the social network X.
Machado maintained that the greatest tribute to Alfred Nobel will also be to conquer the “freedom” of Venezuela and thus “achieve peace.”
The Norwegian Nobel Committee, based in Oslo, announced this Friday that Machado is the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize “for her tireless work in promoting the democratic rights of the Venezuelan people and for her fight to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”
Machado, who has remained in hiding since his last public appearance at a protest in Caracas on January 9, accepted the award with “deep gratitude” “on behalf of the people of Venezuela” and also dedicated it to the president of the United States, Donald Trump.
The opposition leader warned in a statement that Venezuelans have “suffered 26 years of violence and humiliation at the hands of a tyranny obsessed with subduing citizens and breaking the soul of the nation.”
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In that sense, he wrote that “the machinery of oppression has been brutal and systematic, characterized by detentions, torture, forced disappearances and extrajudicial executions that – he asserted – constitute crimes against humanity and State terrorism.”
This award, according to the opponent, is “a unique impulse that injects energy and confidence into Venezuelans, inside and outside the country, to complete” their task which, as she said this Friday, is to “conquer freedom” in the nation.
The governments of Guatemala, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Argentina, Panama, France, Colombia, Germany, Portugal, as well as the Secretary General of the UN, Antonio Guterres, and former United States President Barack Obama, have congratulated Machado for receiving the Nobel Prize.
With information from EFE.
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