Venezuelan opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado, speaks during a press conference at her party headquarters in Caracas on December 15, 2023. - Mariaa Corina Machado appealed this Friday to court a disqualification that would prevent her from running against President Nicolas Maduro in the 2024 elections in Venezuela, on the last day of the deadline given for this in a negotiation mediated by Norway. (Photo by Federico PARRA / AFP)
Venezuelan opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado, speaks during a press conference at her party headquarters in Caracas on December 15, 2023. - Mariaa Corina Machado appealed this Friday to court a disqualification that would prevent her from running against President Nicolas Maduro in the 2024 elections in Venezuela, on the last day of the deadline given for this in a negotiation mediated by Norway. (Photo by Federico PARRA / 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 peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy,” said Jorgen Watne Frydnes, the chair of the Norwegian nobel Committee in Oslo.
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