The Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won the Nobel Prize for 2025, while Donald Trump, who repeatedly claimed to “deserve” the prize and quote his claims of “stopping the Seven Wars”, missed the honor.
Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize for “her tireless work supporting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela”. In addition to being a voice critic of the current regime of her nation, a wild and long -time enemy “autocratic president”, Machado is a voice critic of the current regime of her nation, Nicolas Maduro, Washington Times reported.
Not only Machado, but Donald Trump is also a long -time critic Madura. Nobel’s victory of the Venezuelan opposition leader comes in the middle of the Tirada of Trump’s administration against Madur.
Tension in Venezuela
Recently, Trump’s administration ordered air strikes on the Venezuelan ship – killed 11 “narcoterrorists” from the gang allegedly dominated by Nicolas Maduro.
In August 2025, Trump’s administration even doubled the reward for information leading to Madur’s arrest and accused him of being “one of the largest narco-trade in the world”. The reward now amounts to $ 50 million, according to more reports.
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Previously, US Foreign Minister Marco Rubio described the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as “illegitimate”.
On Friday, Venezuela applied for an emergency meeting with the UN due to US military actions and said she soon expected to have an “armed attack”, CBS News reported.
Maria Corina Machado Maduro
Maria Corina Machado, born on October 7, 1967, is the current leader of the opposition in Venezuela.
Maria said Maduro did not win the Venezuelan presidential election in 2024 – claiming that she had lost to her colleague Edmundo Gonzalez, 67% to 30%.
After the elections, Machado published a letter in the Wall Street Journal, saying that she was writing from “hiding, worried about my life, my freedom and chairman of my countrymen from the dictatorship led by Nicolas Madur”.
When Marco Rubio appreciated Machado
Recently, Machado also performed at the time of the 100 most influential people of 2025. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio congratulated her and called her “Venezuelan Iron Lady” who “never understood from her mission to fight for the free, fair and democratic Venezuela”.
What do experts say
According to experts, Trump will hardly argue against the decision of the Nobel Commission, because the US government itself was critical of the current Venezuelan President Nicolas Madur.
“The Democratic Opposition of Venezuela is something that the US eagerly supported. In this sense, it would be difficult for everyone to represent it as an insult to Trump,” said Reuters Halvard Leira, research director of the Norwesian Institute for International Affairs.
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