OSLO >> Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize today for fighting dictatorship in the country and dedicated the award in part to President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly insisted he deserved it.

Machado, a 58-year-old industrial engineer who lives in hiding, was blocked in 2024 by Venezuela’s courts from running for president and thus challenging President Nicolas Maduro, who has been in power since 2013.

“Oh my God … I have no words,” Machado told the secretary of the award body, Kristian Berg Harpviken, in a phone call which the Nobel Committee posted on social media.

“I thank you so much, but I hope you understand this is a movement, this is an achievement of a whole society. I am just one person. I certainly do not deserve it,” she added.

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