Nobel peace prize 2025 winner name: Nobel peace prize 2025 win for Venezuela’s Maria Corina Machado is a big victory for Donald Trump. Here’s why

Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Venezuela’s Maria Corina Machado. While the Venezuelan opposition leader has expressed shock over the announcement, this may come as an apparent shocking outcome U.S. President Donald Trump who repeatedly made public statements leading-up to this year’s award that he deserved to win the Nobel Peace Prize. However, ahead of the Nobel announcement, experts on the award had also said Trump was very unlikely to win as his policies were seen as dismantling the international world order the Nobel committee cherishes. But there could be a subtle joy for President Trump as the ancient proverb suggests “the enemy’s enemy is a friend” and here the common foe is incumbent Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro.

Nobel Peace Prize 2025 Winner Maria Corina Machado vs Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro

58-year-old industrial engineer Machado, who lives in hiding, was blocked in 2024 by Venezuela’s courts from running for president and thus challenging President Nicolas Maduro, who has been in power since 2013. “When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognise courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,” Norwegian Nobel Committee said in its citation.
President Nicolas Maduro’s government routinely targeted its real or perceived opponents ahead of last year’s presidential election. Machado was set to run against Maduro, but the government disqualified her. Edmundo González took her place. He had never run for office before. The lead-up to the election saw widespread repression including disqualifications, arrests and human rights violations.

The crackdown on dissent only increased after the country’s National Electoral Council, which is stacked with Maduro loyalists, declared him the winner despite credible evidence to the contrary.

The election results announced by the Electoral Council sparked protests across the country to which the government responded with force and ended with more than 20 people dead. They also prompted an end to diplomatic relations between Venezuela and various foreign countries, including Argentina.Machado went into hiding and has not been seen in public since January. A Venezuelan court issued an arrest warrant for González, who moved to Spain and was granted asylum.Last year, Machado and González were awarded the European Union’s top human rights honor, The Sakharov Prize.

Donald Trump vs Nicolas Maduro

Venezuela’s government on Thursday requested an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council focused on the U.S. military actions in recent weeks in the waters off the South American country.

Venezuela made the request in a letter addressed to Russia’s ambassador to the U.N. and council president, Vassily Nebenzia, that accused the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump of seeking to topple Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and threatening “peace, security and stability regionally and internationally.”

Maduro’s government also expressed its expectation of an “armed attack” against Venezuela in “a very short time.”

The request came a day after members of Congress voted down legislation that would have put a check on Trump’s ability to use deadly military force against drug traffickers. So far, the U.S. military has carried four deadly strikes in the Caribbean since it increased its maritime forces for what for what Trump has declared an “armed conflict” with drug cartels.

Maduro’s government, however, maintains that the White House is using drug trafficking only as an excuse for the operation.

Nobel Prize 2025

The Nobel Peace Prize, worth 11 million Swedish crowns, or about $1.2 million, 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 peace prize is the only one of the annual Nobel prizes to be awarded in Oslo, Norway. Four of the other prizes have already been awarded in the Swedish capital, Stockholm this week — in medicine on Monday, physics on Tuesday, chemistry on Wednesday and literature on Thursday. The winner of the prize in economics will be announced on Monday.

FAQs

Q1. Who is Nobel Peace Prize 2025 winner?
A1. Nobel Peace Prize 2025 winner is Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado.

Q2. Who is President of Venezuela?
A2. President of Venezuela is Nicolas Maduro.