{"id":18524,"date":"2025-10-11T05:25:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T05:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=18524"},"modified":"2025-10-11T05:25:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T05:25:48","slug":"maria-corina-machado-venezuelan-opposition-leader-wins-2025-nobel-peace-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=18524","title":{"rendered":"Maria Corina Machado: Venezuelan Opposition Leader Wins 2025 Nobel Peace Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Honoured for her Courageous Fight for Democracy Amid Rising Authoritarianism<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year\u2019s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to <strong>Maria Corina Machado<\/strong>, a Venezuelan opposition leader who has led an unwavering struggle for democracy in the face of expanding authoritarian rule in her country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An engineer and finance graduate, Ms. Machado began her career in business before turning to social and political activism. In 1992, she founded the <strong>Atenea Foundation<\/strong>, an organisation dedicated to supporting street children in Caracas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A decade later, she co-founded <strong>S\u00famate<\/strong>, a civil society group that champions free and fair elections through voter education, training, and election monitoring. Her advocacy propelled her into politics, and in 2010 she was elected to the <strong>National Assembly<\/strong> with a record number of votes \u2014 before being expelled by the regime in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the leader of the <strong>Vente Venezuela<\/strong> party, Machado has become a symbol of democratic resistance. In 2017, she helped establish <strong>Soy Venezuela<\/strong>, a coalition uniting pro-democracy forces across political lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2023, Machado announced her bid for the 2024 presidential election but was barred from running. She then threw her support behind opposition candidate <strong>Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez Urrutia<\/strong>, whose campaign galvanized citizens and documented evidence suggesting an opposition victory \u2014 despite the regime\u2019s claims of success and subsequent power consolidation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nobel Committee recognised Ms. Machado \u201cfirst and foremost for her tireless efforts to advance democracy in Venezuela.\u201d The award also serves as a reminder that democracy \u2014 the right to speak freely, vote, and be represented \u2014 remains the cornerstone of peace within and among nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>: Honoured for her Courageous Fight for Democracy Amid Rising Authoritarianism This year\u2019s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Maria Corina Machado, a Venezuelan opposition leader who has led an unwavering struggle for democracy in the face of expanding authoritarian rule in her country. An engineer and finance graduate, Ms. Machado began her career &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18526,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18524\/revisions\/18526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}