{"id":113682,"date":"2025-10-10T14:37:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T09:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=113682"},"modified":"2025-10-11T14:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T09:39:07","slug":"trump-snubbed-as-nobel-peace-prize-2025-goes-to-venezuelas-maria-corina-machado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2025\/113682\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump snubbed as Nobel Peace Prize 2025 goes to Venezuela&#8217;s Maria Corina Machado<br>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New York (National Times) Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for promoting democratic rights in her country and her struggle to achieve a transition to democracy, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.<br> <br>Machado, a 58-year-old industrial engineer who lives in hiding, was blocked in 2024 by Venezuela&#8217;s courts from running for president and thus challenging President Nicolas Maduro, who has been in power since 2013.<br>&#8220;When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognise courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,&#8221; it said in its citation.<br>The committee chose to focus on Venezuela at this time, in a year dominated by US President Donald Trump&#8217;s repeated public statements that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.<br><br>Trump drew significant attention after receiving endorsements from Pakistan, Israel, Cambodia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.<br><br>Ahead of the announcement, experts on the award had said Trump would not win it as he is dismantling the international world order the Nobel committee cherishes.<br><br>The Nobel Peace Prize, worth 11 million Swedish crowns, or about $1.2 million, is due to be presented in Oslo on December 10, the anniversary of the death of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, who founded the awards in his 1895 will. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING NEWS<br>The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NobelPeacePrize?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NobelPeacePrize<\/a> to 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\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Zgth8KNJk9\">pic.twitter.com\/Zgth8KNJk9<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NobelPrize\/status\/1976573830337327267?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 10, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (National Times) Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for promoting democratic rights in her country and her struggle to achieve a transition to democracy, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said. Machado, a 58-year-old industrial engineer who lives in hiding, was blocked in 2024 by Venezuela&#8217;s courts from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trump snubbed as Nobel Peace Prize 2025 goes to Venezuela&#039;s Maria Corina Machado - Nation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2025\/113682\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump snubbed as Nobel Peace Prize 2025 goes to Venezuela&#039;s Maria Corina Machado - Nation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New York (National Times) Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for promoting democratic rights in her country and her struggle to achieve a transition to democracy, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said. 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