The norwegian nobel committee has decided to award the nobel peace prize for 2025 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 democracy.” These prizes as established by his will are the nobel prize for physics, the nobel prize for chemistry, the nobel prize for physiology or medicine, the nobel prize for literature, and the nobel prize for peace. During the nobel days in december a number of events mark the occasion. María corina machado is being honored for her push for democracy even as she backs president trump’s military buildup and aggressive campaign against venezuela. The nobel peace prize was first awarded in 1901 to frédéric passy and henry dunant, who shared a prize of 150,782 swedish kronor (equal to 7,731,004 kronor in 2008), and most recently in 2025 to maría corina machado.
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