Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for fighting dictatorship in the country and dedicated the award in part to US President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly insisted he deserved it. "When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognise courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist," the Nobel Committee said in its citation. Machado is the first Venezuelan to win the Nobel Peace Prize and the sixth from Latin America. "It's not our task to tell other people or other countries what to do, our task is to give out the peace prize.... The peace prize, worth 11 million Swedish crowns, or about $1.2 million, was the fifth Nobel awarded this week, after literature, chemistry, physics and medicine.

Source: bd News24 October 10, 2025 21:31 UTC