Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said receiving the Nobel Peace Prize was "an achievement of a whole society."A video shared on social media shows Kristian Berg Harpviken, the director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute,

Venezuela's opposition leader and pro-democracy activist María Coria Machado has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.

The prize honored Machado, who is in hiding, for keeping “the flame of democracy burning” but the White House accused the Nobel jury of “placing politics over peace.”