By: Staff Writer
October 14, 2025
María Corina Machado, political leader of Vente Venezuela and leader of the official opposition in Venezuela, said about her recent Nobel Peace Prize award that US President Donald Trump deserves it as she dedicates it to him.
Machado won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for her “tireless work promoting democratic rights”.
The committee described the 58-year-old activist as a “woman who keeps the flame of democracy going, amidst a growing darkness” and commended her for her efforts to “achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy”.
However, less than a week after receiving the award, she told the media that she is dedicating the award to US President Donald Trump, claiming that he “deserves it,” because he has been involved in solving eight wars and also his actions have been decisive that has her country of Venezuela at a threshold where they can now begin to plan the possible exit of its current President Nicolas Maduro after 26 years of tyranny.
In one of her last public appearances in Caracas, Machado said she was convinced Maduro’s days in power were numbered after his apparently stinging defeat. “I would say his departure is irreversible,” she told the media.
Machado was barred from running in last year’s presidential elections won by President Nicolás Maduro. The polls were widely dismissed internationally as neither free nor fair.
Despite the ban, she managed to attract huge crowds in Caracas to rally for their chosen candidate
Machado has refused to leave the country even though the Maduro government has threatened her with arrest.
The lead-up to this year’s announcement was dominated by Donald Trump’s very public campaign to win the prize, which was supported by some world leaders.
On the other hand, Maduro on Sunday branded opposition leader Maria Corina Machado a “demonic witch”, two days after she won the prize
Maduro has accused Machado of calling for a foreign invasion.
“Ninety percent of the population rejects the demonic witch,” Maduro said, without directly mentioning Machado
The government often refers to her as “la sayona”, a word that evokes a spirit in Venezuelan folklore who, like the opposition leader, has white skin and straight black hair.
“We want peace, and we will have peace, but peace with freedom, with sovereignty,” Maduro said at an event commemorating the discovery of the Americas, celebrated in Venezuela as “Indigenous Resistance Day.”