María Corina is the leader of Venezuela’s democratic movement and a key advocate for freedom in Latin America. Her leadership has galvanized millions of Venezuelans demanding fundamental change. In 2025, María Corina Machado received the Nobel Peace Prize for leading Venezuela’s peaceful democratic movement and uniting the country around the yearning to live with dignity, freedom, and respect through free and fair elections. Her leadership turned a nation’s struggle for survival into a civic movement for truth, culminating in an unprecedented citizen effort to defend and make public the true results of Venezuela’s 2024 presidential election. The Norwegian Nobel Committee hailed her as “one of the most extraordinary examples of civilian courage in Latin America in recent times".