US President Donald Trump’s hopes of winning the Nobel Peace Prize were dashed on Friday when the Nobel jury awarded the world’s most prestigious honor to Venezuela’s opposition leader and democracy activist María Corina Machado, whom the jury described as a “unifying” figure in what has become a “brutal” state, AFP reported.

Woken in the middle of the night by a call from the secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee who informed her of the prize, the 58-year-old said she was confident the opposition would succeed in securing a peaceful transition to democracy in her country.

"We're not there yet. We're working very hard to achieve it, but I'm sure that we will prevail," she told Kristian Berg Harpviken in a video of the call posted to X.

"This is certainly the biggest recognition to

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