♦ The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to María Corina Machado. She got this award “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”, the Swedish Academy announced on10 October 10, 2025.

♦ Maria Corina Machado Parisca is the leader of the Venezuelan opposition party, Vente Venezuela.

♦ Machado – who is known as the “Iron Lady” in Venezuela and is only the 20th woman out of 143 laureats awarded since the start of the prize in 1901.