Maria Corina Machado, photo: Federico Parra / AFP / Profimedia Images
Maria Corina Machado, the laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize of 2025, led the fight for democracy in front of an increasing authoritarianism in Venezuela, stresses the Nobel Nobel Committee in the statement in which this year announced.
Machado, 58 years old, studied engineering and finance and had a brief career in the field of business. In 1992, he founded the Athea Foundation, which carries out activities in support of the children of the street in Caracas.
Ten years later, he was one of the founders of the Súmate organization, which promotes free and correct choices and organized electoral training and monitoring programs. In 2010, she was chosen in the National Assembly, the Venezuelan Parliament, obtaining a record number of votes. President Nicolas Maduro's regime expelled her in 2014.
Machado runs the Venezuela Vete Vete Opposition Party (“Haide, Venezuela”) and, in 2017, contributed to the founding of the Soy Venezuela Alliance (“I am Venezuela”), which united the pro-democratic forces beyond the ideological division lines.
In 2023, he announced his candidacy for the presidency for the presidential elections of 2024. When he was forbidden to run, he supported the alternative candidate of the opposition, Edmundo González Urrutia. The opposition was widely mobilized and gathered a systematic documentation that showed that it had been the true winner of the elections. The Maduro regime claimed its victory and tightened its control over power, repressing the protests that followed.
Opinion polls before the elections showed that the urination would get around 65% of the votes, while Maduro was rated just over 30%. The United States, the EU and other countries did not recognize the victory claimed by Nicolas Maduro.
Maria Corina Machado also received the prestigious Saharov prize last year
“Mrs. Machado receives the Nobel Peace Prize, first of all, for her efforts to promote democracy in Venezuela. But democracy is also in withdrawal at international level. Democracy-understood as the right to freely express your opinion, to exercise your vote and to be represented in a government, as well Norwegian.
Maria Corina Machado and Edmundo González Urutia received the Saharov prize last year for the freedom of thinking from the European Parliament.
They were awarded for “their brave struggle to restore freedom and democracy in Venezuela. In their search for a transition of correct, free and peaceful power, they have without fear the values that millions of Venezuelans and the European Parliament value so much: justice, democracy and the rule of law,” said Roberta, Roberta, Roberta, remitted by the EU legislature.
The Saharov Prize for Freedom of Thinking is granted annually from 1988 to people and organizations fighting for the defense of human rights and fundamental freedoms. It is thus named in honor of the physicist and the Soviet dissident Andrei Saharov, and the value of the prize is 50,000 euros.
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