Venezuela: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado dedicated her Nobel Peace Prize to the people of Venezuela and US President Donald Trump on Friday.

She dedicated Nobel Prize for Trump decisive support for her country’s pro-democracy movement. She wrote in her twitter x that I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!

We are on the threshold of victory, and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, she said. The people of the USA, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy, she added.

Machado has been in hiding in Venezuela for the past year since elections that authoritarian leftist President Nicolas Maduro is accused of stealing. who was barred from contesting the election, campaigned instead for her stand-in, ex-diplomat Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, seen by much of the international community as the rightful winner.

The Nobel Committee cited 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.

Machadohas backed Trump’s ongoing campaign of military pressure on Maduro, including a major US naval deployment near Venezuela, as a necessary measure towards a democratic transition in Venezuela.