No Nobel for Trump, peace prize goes to Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado

Trump misses out on Nobel as Venezuelan Opposition leader María Corina Machado awarded Peace Prize.

María Corina Machado, Industrial engineer and former Deputy of the National Assembly of Venezuela, gets the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award 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 democracy.

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The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize 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… pic.twitter.com/Zgth8KNJk9

— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 10, 2025

The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five awards established by the will of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite. It is given annually to individuals or organisations that have made outstanding contributions to peace efforts. The prize consists of a diploma, a gold medal, and a cheque for $1.2 million.

Last year, the Japanese atomic bomb survivor movement Nihon Hidankyo received the award. This year, a total of 338 candidates have been nominated, 244 individuals and 94 organisations. The number marks an increase from last year’s 286 nominations, though the record remains 376, set in 2016. The deadline for nominations for the 2025 award was January 31.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which decides the winner, maintains strict confidentiality. It does not confirm the names of nominees or disclose any information about the selection process. Sometimes names surface through public statements made by nominators or speculation in the media. As per the Nobel Foundation’s statutes, the official list of nominees is kept secret for 50 years to preserve the credibility and integrity of the prize.

The Nobel Peace Prize announcement follows the week’s awards in medicine, physics, chemistryaand literature. The economics prize, technically called the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, will conclude the 2025 Nobel season next Monday.

India, meanwhile, has produced two Nobel Peace Prize laureates. Kailash Satyarthi won the award in 2014 for his lifelong fight against child labour and for promoting every child’s right to education. Before him, Mother Teresa received the honour in 1979 for her humanitarian work among the poor and sick in Kolkata and across the world.