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Machado unified Venezuela's opposition against dictatorship

Anja Kueppers-McKinnon
October 10, 2025

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded Venezuela's opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado, this year's Nobel Peace Prize for unifying political factions and citizens and standing up to dictatorship, committee chair Jorgen Watne Frydnes told DW.

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