Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize

Opponent of Maduro regime receives award and praise for keeping flame of democracy burning'

The Venezuelan opposition politician Maria Corina Machado has won the Nobel peace prize for her dogged struggle to rescue the South American country from its fate as a brutal, authoritarian state".

Machado, 58, a conservative often described as Venezuela's Iron Lady, has spent the last year living in hiding after her political movement was widely believed to have beaten the country's president, Nicolas Maduro, in the July 2024 presidential election.