Maria Corina Conchado of Venezuela who has won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. Muchas felicidades! She deserves the recognition for putting her life on the line to stand up against Venezuela’s drug-trafficking autocrat, President Nicholas Maduro. President Donald Trump, with seven peace agreements under his belt and the eighth one in the works (Hamas/Israel), was a late starter. But, anyone who thinks Trump will win anything like that is a Liberal or tragically naive or both.

In case you don’t know, because of the repression and oppression of the vile strong man Maduro, Maria Corina Conchado was banned from running in the 2024 Venezuelan Presidential election. She supported Edmundo Gonzalez. Gonzalez is the recognized winner of the election.

We are proud and happy for Maria Conchado. She is certainly deserving of a Nobel Peace Prize:

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado for her “tireless work promoting democratic rights” and her “struggle for a peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy”.

In recognition of her courage, Machado has been honoured for her unwavering commitment to peaceful resistance and democratic reform, making her a symbol of hope in a nation gripped by authoritarian rule.

Machado entered politics in 2002 as the founder and leader of the vote-monitoring group Súmate, alongside Alejandro Plaz. As the founder of Súmate, a civil society organisation promoting electoral transparency, she chose ballots over bullets more than two decades ago. Her activism has consistently championed judicial independence, human rights, and representative governance, even as the regime sought to silence dissent through intimidation, imprisonment, and censorship. She is currently the National Coordinator of the political party Vente Venezuela.

A powerful symbol of civilian courage in Latin America, Machado has long defied the repressive regime of Nicolás Maduro, enduring threats, arrests, and political persecution. Despite living under constant risk, she has remained in Venezuela, inspiring millions through her insistence on peaceful resistance and free elections.

En nombre del pueblo de Venezuela, GRACIAS. pic.twitter.com/hF31DRXC7k

— María Corina Machado (@MariaCorinaYA) October 10, 2025

Brava, Senora Machado. But, but, but why didn’t they pick United States President Donald J. Trump The Great? The quick and dirty answer is because Mr. Trump wasn’t inaugurated until noon on January 20, 2025 and the nominations had to be in by January 31, 2025. The quick and dirty answer wasn’t good enough for the Nobel Committee. From Mediaite:

The chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Jørgen Watne Frydnes, pushed back against suggestions that this year’s Nobel Peace Prize decision was made to spite President Donald Trump’s public campaign for the award.

Frydnes was asked directly just moments after he announced this year’s prize would go to Venezuela’s opposition leader María Corina Machado, whether Trump’s repeated insistence that he “deserves” the prize had affected deliberations.

A reporter in the room asked: “During the past months, U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize and he’d like to have it. He even said it would be an insult to the United States if he doesn’t get it. What [do you], as chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize committee, think of this? And how has this campaign-like activity by the president and his supporters, domestically and internationally, affected the deliberation and thinking in the committee?”

He replied: “In the long history of the Nobel Peace Prize, I think this committee has seen many types of campaign, media attention. We receive thousands and thousands of letters every year of people wanting to say what, for them, leads to peace. This committee sits in a room filled with the portraits of all laureates and that room is filled with both courage and integrity. So we base only our decision on the work and the will of Alfred Nobel.”

Ha, ha, ha! Right! Courage and integrity and Barack H. Obama. Mr. Obama was inaugurated at noon on January 20, 2009 and the nominations had to be in by January 31, 2009. According to factually, here are the key accomplishments for which Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize:

Key accomplishments that led to the award included:

Nuclear disarmament initiatives – Obama’s leadership on nuclear disarmament, nonproliferation, and nuclear materials security were highlighted as crucial factors [3] International diplomacy approach – His emphasis on strengthening cooperation between nations and peoples [1] Multilateral engagement – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon praised Obama’s commitment to working through international institutions [2]

A big bowl of empty promises. Obama didn’t want to do the hard work. The former Secretary of the Nobel Prize Committee says award Obama the prize was a mistake.

On the other hand, Trump did the Abraham Accords in his first term and is now working on peace in the Middle East. He has raised the stature of all people everywhere. Maria Corina Machado knows.

The Nobel Peace Prize Committee awarded it to a Venezuelan peace activist today, and you know what she did?

Dedicated it to President Trump

She knows freedom for the Venezuelan people from narcoterrorism will be due to the efforts of the Trump administration pic.twitter.com/qw0DcV9cHi

— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) October 10, 2025

The Nobel Peace Prize just isn’t the same since the committee awarded it to Obama.

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