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2025 Nobel Peace Prizegoes to Venezuelan rights champion, ‘snub’ for Donald Trump
The Statesman Siliguri
|October 11, 2025
The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize was on Friday awarded to Venezuelan politician and democracy activist Maria Corina Machado "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.
Terming her as a "brave and committed champion of peace," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said that the Prize has gone to a "woman who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness."
The announcement was taken as a snub to US Presi-
dent Donald Trump, who had campaigned vocally for the Prize, by the White House, with communications director Steven Cheung saying members of "the Nobel Committee proved they place politics over peace" because they didn't recognise Mr Trump. "He has the heart of a humanitarian, and there will
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