Donald Trump Misses Out As Venezuela’s Opposition Leader Wins Nobel Peace Prize
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday announced Venezuela’s opposition leader and pro-democracy activist, Maria Corina Machado, as the winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.
Machado was honoured “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,” said Jorgen Watne Frydnes, the chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo.
Machado has been a “key, unifying figure in a political opposition that was once deeply divided … in a brutal authoritarian state that is now suffering a humanitarian and economic crisis,” he said.
The committee hailed her as “one of the most extraordinary examples of civilian courage in Latin America in recent times”, noting that she has been forced to live in hiding in the past year.
“Despite serious threats against her life, she has remained in the country, a choice that has inspired millions.”
U.S. President Donald Trump has openly expressed his ambition to win this year’s Nobel Prize.
Since beginning his second term in January, he has frequently asserted that he “deserves” the award for his role in resolving multiple global conflicts — a claim many observers consider to be greatly exaggerated.
However, Nobel Prize analysts in Oslo maintained ahead of Friday’s announcement that Trump stood no chance of winning, emphasizing that his “America First” agenda contradicts the core principles of the Peace Prize as outlined in Alfred Nobel’s 1895 will.
Last year, the prestigious award was presented to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese anti-nuclear organization made up of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The prize comes with a gold medal, a diploma and a prize sum of $1.2 million.
The award will be presented at a formal ceremony in Oslo on December 10, the anniversary of the 1896 death of the prize’s creator, Swedish inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel.
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