This Friday, from Oslo, Norway, María Corina Machado declared that the Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro “is going to leave power.”
MIAMI, United States. – The Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado sent this Friday, from Oslo, Norway, a message to citizens of Cuba and Nicaragua: the new winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize assured that the Venezuelan political struggle “is deeply connected” with the democratization processes in the region and that the fall of dictatorships in Latin America would be an interdependent phenomenon, according to the Venezuelan media. We monitor.
According to that publication, Machado maintained that “the fight for the freedom of Venezuela, the fight for the freedom of Cuba and the fight for the freedom of Nicaragua are united.” He also said: “All Cubans inside and outside Cuba have to know that, once Venezuela is liberated, we are going to fight for its freedom too. And it will come.”
This Friday, from Oslo, María Corina Machado declared that the Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro “is going to leave power” and that his goal is an “orderly and peaceful” transition.
This December 10, during the official speech awarding the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to the Venezuelan opponent, who could not be present, the president of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Jørgen Watne Frydnes, publicly pointed out to the Cuban Government as one of the external pillars that support the regime of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela.
Frydnes accused Havana of being part of a network of regimes and actors that provide weapons, surveillance systems and means of economic survival to Chavismo.
In his speech, he described how autocracies support each other and put Cuba at the center of that framework. “Authoritarian regimes learn from each other. They share technologies and propaganda systems. Behind Maduro are Cuba, Russia, Iran, China and Hezbollah, which provide weapons, surveillance systems and means of economic survival. They make the regime more robust and more brutal,” said the president of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
Frydnes also harshly questioned those who, outside Venezuela, relativize or justify the nature of the Chavista regime. He recalled that, as Venezuelans lost “their rights, their food, their health and their security—and, ultimately, their own future—much of the world clung to their old narratives.”
In his speech, he alluded to those who continued to describe Venezuela as “an ideal egalitarian society,” to those who only wanted to see it “as a fight against imperialism” or as a simple board of “competition between superpowers.” Regarding these observers, Frydnes was blunt: “All these observers have something in common: the moral betrayal of those who actually live under this brutal regime.”
In a passage addressed directly to Nicolás Maduro, Frydnes urged the ruler to accept the results of the 2024 elections and leave power to make way for a democratic transition. “Venezuela’s future can take many forms. But the present is only one, and it is horrible,” he stated, before insisting that the democratic opposition must have support and not indifference or condemnation.
Finally, Frydnes recalled that Maria Corina Machado He received the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize “for his tireless work in promoting the democratic rights of the people of Venezuela and for his fight to achieve a peaceful and just transition from dictatorship to democracy.”
Machado could not be present at the Oslo City Hall. Instead, the ceremony culminated with the presentation of the diploma and medal to her daughter, Ana Corina Sosa, who received the award on behalf of her mother.
The ceremony, presided over by King Harald V and King Sonia of Norway, was also attended by, among other dignitaries, the president-elect of Venezuela, Edmundo González Urrutia, and the presidents of Argentina, Javier Milei; Panama, José Raúl Mulino; and Paraguay, Santiago Peña.
