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View all search resultsCompromised Nobel prize
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado fully deserved to be the laureate of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for her nonviolent efforts to free Venezuela, which is on the verge of being a failed state.
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Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado waves a Venezuelan flag during a rally in Caracas on Aug. 28, 2024. Machado was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, on Oct. 10, 2025. (AFP/Juan Barreto)
T
he Nobel Committee certainly thinks Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado deserves to be the laureate of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for her nonviolent efforts to free Venezuela, which has been in political turmoil for years.
But it is also easy to see that the Nobel Committee's choice was partly aimed at consoling United States President Donald Trump, who demanded the award for himself.
The Nobel Peace Prize awards are often expected to create significant impetus to end conflicts around the world, such as in Gaza, Myanmar, Sudan, Yemen and the Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as Russia's war in Ukraine.
Two Nobel Peace Prizes have been awarded on issues related to Indonesia, primarily because of military brutality in Timor-Leste and Aceh.
The 1996 Nobel Peace Prize was jointly awarded to Dili Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and José Ramos-Horta "for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in Timor-Leste". In 2002, Timor-Leste became independent following an Indonesian occupation.
In 2008, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Martti Ahtisaari, former president of Finland, for his "important efforts on several continents and over more than three decades to resolve international conflicts". In August 2005, the central administration and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) signed a peace agreement, ending a three-year war, in which Ahtisaari acted as a chief negotiator.
"We do not coexist with tyranny, we end it", was a key slogan in Machado's campaign to end the dictatorship of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who took power from Hugo Chavez in 2014 following the death of his predecessor.
