The Norwegian Peace Movement opposed awarding the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado, accusing her of backing military intervention in Venezuela.

The Norwegian Peace Movement held a press conference in Oslo on Tuesday to voice its opposition to the decision to award the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan far-right opposition figure Maria Corina Machado, whom participants accused of advocating a military intervention in her own country.

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From Oslo, spokespersons for the Norwegian Peace Movement expressed “furious” discontent during a press conference, asserting that the committee is “stealing money that belongs to the peace movement.” They argued that Machado is “far from being the champion of peace” required by Nobel’s criteria.

The Peace Mmovement underscored Alfred Nobel’s original vision, which conceived the prize to honor individuals performing “the greatest work to avoid wars and to foster the process of peace.” This vision, as the movement denounced, has been consistently ignored by the Norwegian Committee over the award’s more than one hundred years of history, with directives dismissed “arrogantly.”

The Nobel Peace Prize, as the movement recalled, rests on three inseparable pillars: demilitarization, peace conferences, and cooperation among conflicting nations. These elements, described by Nobel as “a wheel,” are fundamental to his legacy, yet the Committee in Oslo has demonstrated “many deviations” from these guidelines.

Analysts demonstrated that awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the far-right representative contradicts the Committee’s statutes. Machado maintains an agenda that promotes war and invasion of her country, and she has openly defended the genocide committed by Israel against the Palestinian people. The participants stated that this award for Machado is interpreted as a prize for U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Additionally, the participants highlighted that Machado has not hidden her intentions to hand over Venezuelan natural resources, including the world’s largest oil reserves, to the United States. She has also openly supported all sanctions imposed by the U.S. against the Venezuelan people.

For his part, Diosdado Cabello, secretary-general of Venezuela’s United Socialist Party (PSUV), criticized the award on Tuesday, calling it an “auction” handed out “to the highest bidder.” “Regarding Oslo, I don’t know. We have no involvement in that; we don’t participate in that auction,” he said.

Meanwhile, the press conference that Machado was scheduled to hold on Tuesday at the Nobel Institute in Oslo at 1:00 p.m. local time (12:00 GMT), on the eve of receiving the Peace Prize, has been postponed.

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