No-bell for Trump: Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado gets the Nobel Peace Prize 2025

Maria Corina Machado, Venezuelan politician and industrial engineer was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.

Maria Corina Machado, a Venezuelan politician and industrial engineer has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2025, for promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.

The Committee announcing on their official X handle wrote, "The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize 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 democracy."

US President Donald Trump was also nominated for the prestigious award, while people anticipated whether he will be awarded the Nobel Prize.

In August, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt had said that Trump should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, as he "ended several conflicts around the world".

"In a period of just seven months, I have ended seven wars," Trump said, claiming that he had ended the wars between Israel and Iran, India and Pakistan, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Thailand and Cambodia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Egypt and Ethiopia, and Serbia and Kosovo.