The Venezuelan opposition leader, María Corina Machado, said this Sunday that the “next prize will be the freedom” of her countryafter dedicating to his compatriots the Nobel Peace Prize 2025 which was awarded to him last Friday.
In a video that she shared on social networks, the former deputy expressed that the award is “for those who never give up” and “they choose freedom as the path to peace, when everything pushes them towards hatred.”
He also dedicated it to “those who resist without hatred, to those who endure hunger, fear and silence, but never stop believing.”
“To the mothers who continue waiting for their children. To those who fight tirelessly, to those who march with faith. This award is (…) for you, it is for me, it is for everyone,” he added in the video.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee, based in Oslo, announced on 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.”
The former representative, who also dedicated the award to the president of the United States, Donald Trump, for his support of the opposition cause, stated 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.
In that sense, he pointed out the award as “a unique impulse that injects energy and confidence into Venezuelans, inside and outside the country, to complete” the task of “conquering freedom” in the nation, where the majority opposition maintains that there was “fraud” in the 2024 presidential elections, in which the electoral body proclaimed the victory of Nicolás Maduro.
