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Oslo (AFP)
The Nobel Peace Prize was on Friday awarded to Venezuela's opposition leader and democracy activist Maria Corina Machado, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.
Machado was honoured "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela," said Jorgen Watne Frydnes, the chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo.
The committee hailed her as "one of the most extraordinary examples of civilian courage in Latin America in recent times".
The prize comes with a gold medal, a diploma and a prize sum of $1.2 million.
The award will be presented at a formal ceremony in Oslo on December 10, the anniversary of the 1896 death of the prizes' creator, Swedish inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel.
The Peace Prize is the only Nobel awarded in Oslo, with the other disciplines announced in Stockholm.
The 2025 Nobel season winds up Monday with the economics prize.
