“I am a still a legislator, more than ever, and will continue my activities inside and outside the National Assembly,”
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María Corina Machado
María Corina Machado Parisca is a Venezuelan politician, activist, and prominent leader of the opposition to the administrations of Hugo Chávez, Nicolás Maduro, and Delcy Rodríguez. She served as a member of the National Assembly of Venezuela from 2011 to 2014, and has run as a candidate in presidential elections. She was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize; she presented the medal to U.S. presiden…
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politics · Venezuelan politician and activist (born 1967) · politician · human rights defender · industrial engineer · also María Corina Machado, Corina Machado, MCM, Machado
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I had this unsettling feeling that I could not stay at home and watch the country get polarized and collapse. . . . We had to keep the electoral process but change the course, to give Venezuelans the chance to count ourselves, to dissipate tensions before they built up. It was a choice of ballots over bullets.
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2026· 33 entries
“I had this unsettling feeling that I could not stay at home and watch the country get polarized and collapse. . . . We had to keep the electoral process but change the course, to give Venezuelans the chance to count ourselves, to dissipate tensions before they built up. It was a choice of ballots over bullets.”
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“a premeditated, cowardly, vile, aggression”
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“my goal is to get Maduro out and be able to defeat the regime using all the force”
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“made a big mistake by turning the election into a plebiscite on himself... This is a clear signal that Venezuelans do not want an authoritarian government, a militarized government, a centralized government and a government that wants to turn Venezuela into Cuba... A new phase begins today, and we”
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“While we are visiting voters, going from house to house, the ruling party”
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El Pitazo: María Corina Machado a vecinas de La Dolorita: «Muy pronto voy a estar ahí»
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Contrapunto.com: María Corina Machado exige fijar una ruta electoral en Venezuela y critica su exclusión de las negociaciones
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AlbertoNews - Periodismo sin censura: María Corina Machado a Der Spiegel: «La pregunta no es si volveré, sino cuándo» - AlbertoNews
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Emisora Costa del Sol 93.1 FM: María Corina Machado conversó con lideresas comunitarias de La Dolorita y les, dijo muy pronto voy a estar ahí abrazándolas
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DER SPIEGEL - The German View: Machado on Her Escape from Venezuela: “Completely Disoriented on the Open Sea” - DER SPIEGEL
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facebook.com: #EnVideo| Diosdado Cabello, sobre María Corina Machado. "María mentira te quedaste " comentó durante su programa Con el Mazo Dando. 📹 Cort. @ConElMazoDando #EUVzla #ElUniversal
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facebook.com: El Universal. . #EnVideo| Diosdado Cabello, sobre María Corina Machado. "María mentira te quedaste " comentó durante su programa Con el Mazo Dando. 📹 Cort. @ConElMazoDando #EUVzla #ElUniversal
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Enfoque Noticias: Aplaude Somos México premio Nobel de la paz para María Corina Machado
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Dossier Político: El Vuelo de la Discordia: Avión ruso con registro mexicano trasladó a Corina Machado a Oslo, Noruega, para recibir premio nobel
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Emisora Costa del Sol 93.1 FM: María Corina Machado celebró las liberaciones de los presos políticos en Venezuela
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EnergyNow.com: Venezuela Opposition Leader Maria Corina Machado Pushes for Energy Investment Security, Transparency
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La Noticia de Barinas: María Corina Machado exige un nuevo CNE con «cero cuotas políticas» para elecciones presidenciales
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Acento: María Corina Machado celebra llegada de Ito Bisonó a la Cancillería dominicana
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NTN24: Así reaccionaron Marco Rubio, Dinorah Figuera y María Corina Machado a las recientes excarcelaciones en Venezuela
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Emisora Costa del Sol 93.1 FM: La calle, María Corina Machado y Estados Unidos obligaron al régimen a liberar a los presos políticos Omar González Moreno
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Infobae: Machado celebró la liberación de presos políticos en Venezuela pero exigió la excarcelación de todos los detenidos: “Habrá justicia”
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Canarias en Pleno: María Corina Machado exige liberar a todos los presos políticos
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voz.us: ¿Dos visiones opuestas para el futuro? Marco Rubio y María Corina Machado acorralan la retórica castrista de Delcy Rodríguez
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Demócrata: Machado applauds the recent releases in Venezuela and demands the immediate release of all political prisoners.
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Demócrata: Machado aplaude las recientes liberaciones en Venezuela y reclama la salida inmediata de todos los presos políticos
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notiecuador: Machado celebra la liberación de presos políticos en Venezuela y exige la excarcelación de todos los detenidos
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El Impulso: María Corina Machado y Marco Rubio destacan excarcelaciones de presos políticos en Venezuela y esperan que todos sean liberados #14Ago
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Contrapunto.com: María Corina Machado siente «alegría infinita» por excarcelaciones y pide liberación de todos los presos políticos
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NTN24: María Corina Machado reacciona a recientes excarcelaciones de presos políticos en Venezuela: "Habrá memoria, justicia y reparación"
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Machado met privately with Trump and later with multiple U
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Snopes rated the claim “During a January 2026 Fox News interview, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said she wanted to give her 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to U.S. President Donald Trump.” True.
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Mayor Mario Desbordes granted Machado with the keys to the city of Santiago, Chile
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2025· 9 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado dedicated her 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to U.S. President Donald Trump.” True.
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Awarded Time 100 (2025).
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Awarded Nobel Peace Prize (2025).
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As a "visionary" in relation to his opposition to the Maduro government in Venezuela
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“s Margaret Thatcher. In 2025, appearing virtually at the 2025 edition of Fortune Global Forum, she advocated large-scale privatization in Venezuela, arguing that more than 500 companies could be privatized, representing an estimated $1.7 trillion economic opportunity. Foreign policy Openly anti-communist, Machado is a signatory of the 2020 Madrid Charter. In February 2025, Machado addressed a Patriots for Europe rally in Madrid. Machado called Javier Milei”
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The Wall Street Journal said she was a conservative activist for democracy who "often advocat[ed] for Washington to confront the Venezuelan government more forcefully"
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Wrote that she had "corralled the fractious opposition"
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Appearing virtually at the 2025 edition of Fortune Global Forum, she advocated large-scale privatization in Venezuela, arguing that more than 500 companies could be privatized, representing an estimated $1
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Machado praised the Trump administration
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2024· 7 entries
Election won: 2024 presidential election.
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Awarded Václav Havel Human Rights Prize (2024).
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Awarded Sakharov Prize (2024).
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Campaign: 2024 presidential election.
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That she had become a "spiritual icon" in "contrast to the many years she was viewed as a radical, far-right politician, too extreme even for her own party coalition"
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Machado received the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize and the Sakharov Prize (shared with González) for representing Venezuelans fighting for democracy
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Said: "What once seemed radical–she was one of the first to call chavismo a dictatorship and referred to the government's expropriation of private land and businesses as 'theft'—now has Venezuelans clamoring with approva
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2023· 2 entries
Ran as a candidate in the opposition presidential primaries
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Machado won the opposition primary to become the unity candidate for the 2024 presidential election
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2019· 1 entry
Machado received the Prize for Freedom from Liberal International
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2018· 3 entries
Awarded BBC 100 Women (2018).
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Machado was named one of the BBC's 100 Most Influential Women
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And listed among Time magazine's 100 most influential people in 2025
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2016· 10 entries
Published video “María Corina, #Contigo 106”.
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Published video “María Corina #Contigo, N° 101.”.
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Published video “María Corina #Contigo, N° 100.”.
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Published video “María Corina #Contigo, N° 94”.
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Published video “María Corina #Contigo, N° 92”.
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Published video “María Corina #Contigo, N° 91”.
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Published video “María Corina #Contigo, N° 90”.
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Published video “María Corina #Contigo, N° 89”.
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Published video “Megacola en Cumaná, estado Sucre”.
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Published video “Ciudadana de Cumaná: Cuando el Gobierno perdió la vergüenza, dejamos de respetarlo”.
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2015· 1 entry
For their "unwavering defense of freedom in their community and demands for the minimum exercise of human rights therein, which has led to their public rebuke by the government, including arbitrary imprisonment and the c
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2011· 4 entries
Machado launched her candidacy for the 2012 Venezuelan presidential election
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And her companions were attacked on 16 October by a small group of the Motorized Front of the PSUV while in Turmero, injuring Machado and two others
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Campaign: 2011 presidential candidacy.
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Machado campaigned as an advocate of "popular capitalism", stating: "To defeat Chavista socialism, we must present superior ideas that can inspire millions of Venezuelans
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2010· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the National Assembly of Venezuela (2010–2014).
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2009· 1 entry
Machado was chosen out of 900 applicants as one of 15 accepted to the Yale World Fellows Program
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2007· 4 entries
“Este régimen se ha deslegitimado, un elemento indispensable, el carácter fundamental en una república, es el carácter temporal del mandato, del ejercicio del poder, en una república se exige que el mandato sea limitado, solo en las monarquías hay un poder indefinidido, ni los peores dictadores de nuestra historia, ni siquiera Juan Vicente Gómez, ignoraron ese aspecto republicano.”
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“La protesta es un derecho constitucional... Son tiempos de resistencia, son tiempos de rebeldía, son tiempos de esperanza.”
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“La salida democrática no se logra con el cambio de un hombre; requiere combatir un sistema.”
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“Las personas han convertido la causa de Venezuela en su causa personal, queremos llegar ante el mundo. Vamos a arreglar esto y seremos libres.”
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2006· 1 entry
As "the best of womankind and the difficult times many women face around the globe" on a list of Women the World Should Know for International Women's Day
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2003· 1 entry
“We realized he established tools giving citizens the power to recall officials in midterm by referendum. If 10 percent of all registered voters signed a petition to have a referendum -- 1.2 million signatures out of 12 million by Aug. 19, 2003 -- it was enough to have a recall of any elected official.”
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2001· 2 entries
Where they shared their concern about the course that was being shaped for Venezuela
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“Something clicked. I had this unsettling feeling that I could not stay at home and watch the country get polarized and collapse... We had to keep the electoral process but change the course, to give Venezuelans the chance to count ourselves, to dissipate tensions before they built up. It was a choice of ballots over bullets.”
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1998· 1 entry
In terms of the "fervor" it generated in citizens, in a context of both political crisis and systemic decadence
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1992· 1 entry
Started Fundación Atenea (Atenea Foundation), a foundation using private donations to care for orphaned and delinquent Caracas street children; she also served as chair of the Oportunitas Foundation
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1967· 1 entry
Born 1967-10-07.
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1943· 1 entry
When Norwegian author Knut Hamsun gifted his medal to Nazi minister Joseph Goebbels
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1825· 1 entry
As a "a sign of the brotherhood between the people of the US and the people of Venezuela in their fight for freedom against tyranny
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