Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize | News Flash

OSLO, Oct 10, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The Nobel Peace Prize was on Friday awarded to Venezuela's opposition leader and democracy activist Maria Corina Machado,the Norwegian Nobel Committee said. Machado was honoured "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peacefultransition from dictatorship to democracy," said Jorgen Watne Frydnes, the chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo. Machado has been a "key, unifying figure in a political oppostion that was once deeply divided ... in a brutal authoritarian state that is now sufferinga humanitarian and economic crisis," he said. The committee hailed her as "one of the most extraordinary examples of civilian courage in Latin America in...