Maria Corina Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize

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This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been won by Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado.The Nobel Peace Prize committee said it had awarded Ms 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".

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00:00The Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 goes to a brave and committed champion of peace, to a woman

00:11who keeps the flame of democracy burning amidst a growing darkness.

00:22The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 to Maria Corina Machado.

00:35She is receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights

00:42for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition

00:51from dictatorship to democracy.

00:56As the leader of the democratic forces in Venezuela, Maria Corina Machado is one of the most extraordinary

01:05examples of civilian courage in Latin America in recent times.

01:12Miss Machado has been a key unifying figure in a political opposition that was once deeply

01:20divided and a position that found common ground in the demand for free election and representative

01:29government.

01:32This is precisely what lies at the heart of democracy.

01:38Our shared willingness to defend the principles of popular rule, even though we disagree.

01:47At the time when democracy is under threat, it is more important than ever to defend this

01:55common ground.

01:58Venezuela has evolved from a relatively democratic and prosperous country to a brutal and authoritarian

02:08state that is now suffering a humanitarian and economic crisis.

02:14The most Venezuelans live in deep poverty, even as the few at the top enrich themselves.

02:24The violent machinery of the state is directed against its own population.

02:31Nearly eight million people have left the country.

02:37The opposition has been systematically suppressed by means of election rigging, legal prosecution,

02:45and imprisonment.

02:47Venezuela's authoritarian regime makes political work extremely dangerous.

02:55As the founder of Sumate, an organization devoted to democratic development, Ms. Machado stood

03:02up for free and fair elections more than 20 years ago.

03:09As she said, it was a choice of ballots over bullets.

03:15outside the party, the Oswald Fulston's has moved to the village of St. Polis Fulgon, which is

03:23the only person who should be back in the village of St. Polis Fulgon, which is

03:26an existing division of Z-Chair.

03:27The area of St. Polis Fulgon , that is less about the堂ire is the only decision of the

03:28government.

03:29The only human who should be zorunda is a decision of the environment in order to have

03:30the existence.

03:31The newlyformed inserted into the government, which is the only source of the country

03:33of the world, so it is the only source of the nature of the country.

03:35It was a political instrument in which we should know when the laws of the animal

03:38and the individual can be killed.

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