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Venezuela opposition leader Machado's daughter accepts Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf

Her daughter delivers a speech from her mother, saying that Venezuelans 'must be willing to fight for freedom'

Published: Wed 10 Dec 2025, 5:31 PM

Venezuela's opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, on Wednesday said that Venezuelans had shown that "we must be willing to fight for freedom," in a speech delivered by her daughter, who accepted the prize in her absence in Oslo.

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"What we Venezuelans can offer the world is the lesson forged through this long and difficult journey: that to have democracy, we must be willing to fight for freedom," Machado's daughter, Ana Corina Sosa Machado, said.