What Message Could We Get from the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize?

In a dictatorship, the weaker the regime is, the greater the repression. Maria Corina Machado ...In June 2014, Venezuela's attorney general Luisa Ortega Díaz subpoenaed Machado along with Burelli, Diego Arria, and Ricardo Koesling.[57] By 11 June 2014, arrest warrants were issued.[58] Burelli hired Kivu, a U.S.-based cybersecurity company, to analyze the alleged emails.[59] Kivu concluded that there was "no evidence of the existence of any emails between Pedro Burelli's Google email accounts and the alleged recipients", that the alleged emails presented by the Venezuelan government had "many indications of user manipulation" and that "Venezuelan officials used forged emails to accuse government adversaries of plotting to kill President Nicolas Maduro". 2024 presidential election …The New York Times, referring to Machado, described her as "an energetic former legislator whose central message is the promise of bringing Venezuelans home by restoring democracy and getting the economy going again".Following the Venezuelan government's announcements of falsified election results, a national and international political crisis developed.[98] On 1 August, Machado published a letter in The Wall Street Journal, stating that she had gone in to hiding "fearing for my life, my freedom, and that of my fellow countrymen from the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro"; in the letter, she laid out the evidence she said she had from the vote tallies supporting PUD's win, and stated that Maduro had expelled witnesses from the polls, while the witnesses "protected the voter receipts with their lives throughout the night" of the elections. On January 9, 2025, Maria Machado suffered an attempted arrest by forces of the "Nicolás Maduro regime." The arrest occurred after a rally in Chacao, Caracas, where Machado had reappeared publicly after three months in hiding. According to reports, government troops "violently intercepted" her vehicle and shot at the motorcycles carrying her. Political views Machado is anti-chavismo and has disagreed with other sections of the Venezuelan opposition.[106][107][108] In 2011, she campaigned as a promotor of "popular capitalism".[108] Machado supports the privatization of state-run entities in Venezuela, including oil company PDVSA.[71][107] Machado has supported the international sanctions during the Venezuelan crisis,[71] and has advocated for foreign intervention to remove Maduro on humanitarian grounds.[109][110] In 2023, she ran as a candidate in the opposition presidential primaries.[111][112] The Maduro administration subsequently barred her from running.[113] She subsequently became the main driving force for the main opposition candidate, Edmundo González, who was allowed to compete by the Maduro regime.[114] Domestically, Machado has called for the banning of reelection to political offices in Venezuela, is in favor of same-sex marriage in Venezuela, supports the legalization of medical cannabis, and has called on a national debate regarding the legality of abortion.[115] In a 2024 interview Machado talked of making education available for all Venezuelans, and of reforming the Venezuelan judiciary. Target of violence Described as a Lady of Steel,or Iron Lady, The New York Times states that supporters see her as "courageous for staying in Venezuela when many other politicians have fled". While attending the bicentennial celebration of Venezuela's Declaration of Independence on 5 July 2011, following controversial comments made earlier by Machado about Venezuela's dependency on Cuba and not being independent, Machado was attacked by an angry group of Venezuelan government supporters. The group of about 50 threw stones and bottles at her;authorities defended her, and one officer was injured, as Machado was evacuated from the area by a police motorbike.Machado later thanked the authorities for defending her and apologized for any of their injuries. During Machado's presidential race in 2011, she and her companions were attacked on 16 October by a small group of the Motorized Front of the PSUV while in Turmero,injuring Machado and two others. The group attacked them with kicks, punches and objects while saying "this is chavista territory, no political opposition enters here". On 30 April 2013, cameras covering the National Assembly were turned to the ceiling and opposition members stated they were attacked and assaulted in an "ambush by supporters of President Nicolas Maduro's government". Machado was injured, along with other legislators in the National Assembly, saying she was attacked from behind, hit in the face and kicked while on the floor which left her with a broken nose. Machado said the brawl "was a premeditated, cowardly, vile, aggression". Maduro responded to the situation by saying: "What happened today in the National Assembly, we do not agree with violence. They tell us and we knew that the opposition was coming to provoke violence." No disciplinary actions was taken against any of the attackers after the incident. At a rally on 16 November 2013 showing support for the opposition party during municipal elections, Machado and other politicians were attacked by government supporters,with stones and fireworks.[128] After leading protests in Bolivar state on 14 March 2014, Machado, the Bishop of Ciudad Guayana, Mariano Parra, and other citizens in the area were attacked at the Puerto Ordaz airport. The National Guard intervened to disperse the attack. While heading to a meeting in Caricuao on 30 July 2014, members of colectivos attacked Machado.The vehicle Machado was traveling in was heavily damaged, with the body and windows of the vehicle being struck with gun handles, sticks and stones.[132] Machado escaped and was then moved to the assembly place while colectivos followed breaking down the door where they then left the scene after confrontations with residents protecting Machado. Awards and recognition Machado in a forum with Center for Strategic and International Studies In May 2005, the then U.S. president George W. Bush welcomed Machado to the Oval Office. After meeting with Machado and discussing Súmate's "efforts to safeguard the integrity and transparency of Venezuela's electoral process", a White House spokesperson said, "[t]he President expressed his concerns about efforts to harass and intimidate Súmate and its leadership".Machado was hailed by National Review in 2006 as "the best of womankind and the difficult times many women face around the globe" on a list of Women the World Should Know for International Women's Day. She was described as a "reluctant heroine" in 2006 by National Review on a list of Women the World Should Know for International Women's Day as "the best of womankind and the difficult times many women face around the globe". In 2009, Machado was chosen out of 900 applicants as one of 15 accepted to the Yale World Fellows Program. The Yale University program "aim[s] to build a global network of emerging leaders and to broaden international understanding worldwide. ... 'Each of the 2009 Yale World Fellows has demonstrated an outstanding record of accomplishment and unlimited potential for future success,' said Program Director Michael Cappello." The Yale World Fellows Program press release said: Machado devotes herself to defending democratic institutions and civil liberties through SUMATE, the nation's leading watchdog for electoral transparency. Machado would later graduate from the program. She was awarded the Cádiz Cortes Ibero-American Freedom Prize in 2015 for "unblemished defense of freedom in your community and minimum requirements of the realization of human rights in the same, which has led them to be subject to public rebuke of their government, including the flagrant situation of imprisonment or the cutting of your minimal civil rights". In 2018, Machado was named one of the BBC's 100 Most Influential Women. In 2019, Machado received the Prize for Freedom from Liberal International. Machado was awarded the 2024 Václav Havel Human Rights Prize by the Council of Europe. She was one of three finalists along with Akif Gurbanov and Babutsa Pataraia. Along with Edmundo González, she was awarded the Sakharov Prize by the European Parliament on 24 October 2024 for "representing the people of Venezuela fighting to restore freedom and democracy." In April 2025, she was listed among Time magazine's 100 most influential people. Nobel Peace Prize Main article: 2025 Nobel Peace Prize The Inspira América Foundation joined with the rectors of four universities on 16 August 2024 to promote the nomination of Machado for the Nobel Peace Prize, highlighting her "tireless fight for peace in Venezuela and the world" as "a fair recognition of a person who has dedicated almost her entire life to the fight for peace and the liberation" of Venezuela. Politicians from the US state of Florida, such as Marco Rubio, Rick Scott, María Elvira Salazar, and Mario Díaz-Balart submitted a letter in support of the nomination on 26 August, stating that her "courageous and selfless leadership, and unyielding dedication to the pursuit of peace and democratic ideals" have been "instrumental in mobilizing both domestic and international support for a peaceful resolution to the ongoing electoral fraud crisis" along with her advocacy to "bring attention to the human rights abuses occurring under the current regime embody the very principles that the Nobel Peace Prize seeks to honor." On 10 October 2025, Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "her work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Corina_Machado