María Corina Machado (Venezuela) won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for “her tireless work supporting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy”. Since becoming a member of parliament in 2010, Machado has become the main figure in opposition to Nicolás Maduro, and she is currently the leader of the Venezuelan democratic movement. She is the founder and national coordinator of VENTE Venezuela, and since mid-2024 she has lived in hiding, from where she coordinated the electoral campaign of Edmundo González Urrutia for the presidential elections of 2024 — after Machado herself won the primaries with a historical majority, but was banned by the government from standing at the elections. Together with Moisés Naím she will talk about many years of resistance, the efforts to unite the opposition, her leadership of the electoral campaign of 2024, and hopes for a better future for Venezuela.
María Corina Machado will participate virtually
