Maria Corina Machado has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, clinching the accolade ahead of hundreds of nominees including US President Donald Trump.
The five-strong Norwegian Nobel Committee announced this year’s recipient of the prestigious honour on Friday, with Venezuela’s opposition leader emerging at the top of a field of 338 nominees.
She beat 338 other candidates – 244 individuals and 94 organisations – who had been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize this year.
Judges awarded Machado the prize “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy”.
She has been forced into in hiding since the days following Venezuela’s presidential election, when authorities loyal to Nicolás Maduro, the country’s autocratic leader, declared he had won a third term.
The Norwegian Nobel chose to focus on Venezuela at this time, in a year dominated by Trump’s repeated public statements that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.
Ahead of the announcement, experts on the award had said Trump would not win it as he is dismantling the international world order the Nobel committee cherishes.
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has been in hiding since the election of President Nicolas Maduro for a third term (Photo: Reuters/Leonardo Fernandez)Trump, who was seeking to become the fourth American president to win the Nobel Peace Prize, has been increasingly vocal during his second term about his desire for recognition over brokering an Israel-Gaza peace deal and efforts to secure an end to the Russia-Ukraine war.
During a meeting with Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in February, Trump said: “They will never give me a Nobel Peace Prize. I deserve it, but they will never give it to me.”
He has suggested on several times that he has been instrumental in stopping multiple wars.
BREAKING NEWSThe Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to… pic.twitter.com/Zgth8KNJk9
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 10, 2025“In a period of just seven months, I have ended seven ‘un-endable’ wars,” he claimed during his address to the United Nations General Assembly last month. “No president or prime minister — and for that matter, no other country — has ever done anything close to that.”
Trump was nominated for the prize by several politicians, including Benjamin Netanyahu and Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Manet.
Netanyahu nominated Trump in July after Trump claimed credit for stopping the war with Iran in June.
Although the prize committee does not publish a list of candidates, it said there were 338 nominations, of which 244 were individuals and 94 organisations.
The deadline for nominations was 31 January.
Former US President Theodore Roosevelt became the first White House-based Nobel recipient in 1906, followed by fellow presidents Woodrow Wilson in 1920 and Jimmy Carter in 2002.
Vice President Al Gore won the award in 2007, with President Barack Obama doing so two years later at the beginning of his first term in office.
The Nobel Peace Prize, worth 11 million Swedish crowns, or about £867,000, is due to be presented in Oslo on December 10, the anniversary of the death of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, who founded the awards in his 1895 will.
The prize usually includes a medal, personal diploma, and the award money.
In accordance with Nobel’s will, the recipient is selected by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, a five-member committee appointed by the Parliament of Norway.
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