US-backed Venezuelan opposition figure Maria Corina Machado has won this year\u2019s award<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump has been overlooked for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, which was awarded on Friday to Venezuelan opposition politician Maria Corina Machado.
\nTrump has repeatedly claimed he deserves the prize for purportedly resolving multiple international conflicts since taking office in January, including most recently in Gaza.
\nThe Norwegian Nobel Committee praised Machado \u2013 a prominent critic of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro \u2013 \u201cfor her tireless advocacy of democratic freedoms in Venezuela and her commitment to achieving a peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.\u201d Maduro has accused Machado of channeling US funds to \u201cfascist\u201d anti-government groups, calling her a front for Washington\u2019s interference in Venezuelan affairs.
\nMachado has had close contacts with the US government for decades. In 2005, then-President George W. Bush received her at the Oval Office.<\/p>\n
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US \u2018war on drugs\u2019 is just another regime change attempt<\/p>\n
During Trump\u2019s first term, the US and several other Western nations recognized Venezuelan opposition figure Juan Guaido as the country\u2019s \u201cinterim president,\u201d although Guaido\u2019s attempts to seize power through protests and attempted coups failed.
\nSince returning to office in January, Trump has renewed pressure on Caracas through sanctions and military measures that his administration describes as anti-narcotics operations. Critics, including Republican Senator Rand Paul and Juan Gonzalez, a senior diplomat in the administration of President Joe Biden, argue that the White House is pursuing a familiar regime-change strategy. Trump\u2019s secretary of state, Marco Rubio, is a staunch opponent of Maduro and is viewed as the key driver of the effort.
\nEarlier this week, the Nobel Committee awarded the literature prize to Hungarian author Laszlo Krasznahorkai, a noted critic of his country\u2019s prime minister, Viktor Orban \u2013 one of Trump\u2019s most vocal allies in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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