OSLO, Oct 10 (The African Portal) – The Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 has gone to Maria Corina Machado. The committee lauded “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.”
Will Machado be able to attend the awards ceremony in Oslo?
It is not clear whether Maria Corina Machado will be able to attend the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo on December 10.
The Venezuelan opposition leader has been living in hiding, and she has not been seen in public since January, when she was reportedly detained briefly.
If she does not attend, she will join the list of Nobel Peace Prize laureates who have been prevented from doing so during the award’s 124-year history.
This list includes Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov in 1975, Poland’s Lech Walesa in 1983, and Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi in 1991.
Machado is the first Venezuelan and the sixth Latin American to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Machado believes opposition will prevail in Venezuela
Maria Corina Machado said she was confident that the opposition would succeed in securing a peaceful transition to democracy in her home country of Venezuela.
“We’re not there yet. We’re working very hard to achieve it, but I’m sure that we will prevail,” she told Kristian Berg Harpviken, the director of the Nobel Institute and secretary of the Nobel Committee, when he called to inform her that she had won the 2025 Peace Prize.
Credit: DW
