Trump fails in bid for Nobel Peace Prize as Venezuelan politician Maria Corina Machado wins 2025 award | EUROtoday
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Maria Corina Machado has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work in “promoting peace” in Latin America at a time when “democracy is under threat”.
Ms Machado was declared the winner in an announcement made by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo on Friday.
The Venezuelan opposition chief was awarded for “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,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee stated in its quotation.
The politician is presently in hiding attributable to severe threats to her life.
The information will come as a disappointment to President Donald Trump. The American chief has been engaged in peacemaking efforts – with one eye on the accolade – ever since he returned to workplace in January this yr. In the previous 24 hours, he shared a number of articles on Truth Social claiming he ought to win the award for securing a peace deal between Hamas and Israel in Gaza.
Since his return to workplace, he has claimed to have stopped “seven wars” together with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which stays ongoing.
Trump is keen to be recognised for his efforts to finish the wars America has been concerned in all over the world.
Declaring his 20-point plan for Gaza alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he introduced the doc would finish “thousands of years” of battle and that it was a “big, big day, a beautiful day”, and “potentially one of the greatest days ever in civilisation”.
He has been open about his frustrations along with his allies’ reluctance to cooperate, hitting out at Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “paper tiger” and saying Netanyahu was “f**king me” and being “so negative” with assaults on Qatar and additional delays to a ceasefire.
However, he has had his supporters across the globe together with the Hostages and Missing Families Forum who stated the President ought to win for having introduced them “light in our darkest times”.
Pakistan additionally nominated Mr Trump for his involvement within the de-escalation of the battle Pakistan and India earlier this yr.
His efforts have been lauded as “historic” by some commentators with no earlier chief having launched an initiative for Israeli-Palestinian talks on such a scale and forging a formidable coalition of countries to work in the direction of it.
Trump has beforehand stated in regards to the Prize: “I should have gotten it four or five times.”
In March 2025, the Nobel Committee introduced that 338 candidates had been nominated for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, of which 244 are people and 94 are organizations.
Previous Prize holders embrace activist Mother Theresa, South African chief Nelson Mandela, and US politician Henry Kissinger.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/nobel-peace-prize-winner-2025-maria-corina-machado-trump-b2840726.html