President Donald Trump may have inadvertently boosted María Corina Machado’s cause months before the Nobel Committee gave her the Peace Prize he wanted for himself.

The Venezuelan opposition leader was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights in her home country under President Nicolás Maduro, and ”achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy."

Machado won, having thrown her weight behind opposition hopeful Edmundo González Urrutia in last year’s race—an outcome Washington said he won, even as Maduro claimed victory and held on to power—and she was pushed into hiding amid threats and prosecutions, and barred from public office.

News of Machado’s award has upset Trump after he had lobbied furiously to win

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