Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has rejected the decision to award Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, saying it clearly discredits the distinction.
“It is shameful that this Prize is awarded in 2025 to a person who instigated military intervention in her homeland and, in recent years, street protests in which people were burned alive,” the Cuban president stated on social media.
He also asserted that “the politicization, bias, and discrediting of the Norwegian Nobel Peace Committee has reached unimaginable limits.”
“We firmly reject this political maneuver that attempts to single out Venezuela and undermine its Bolivarian leadership, led by its legitimate President, Nicolás Maduro Moros,” Díaz-Canel stated.
This Friday, María Corina Machado was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, according to the Norwegian Committee’s decision, for “tirelessly promoting the rights of the Venezuelan people and fighting to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”
The Oslo-based Committee selected María Corina Machado from a group of 338 candidates, including 244 prominent figures and 94 organizations.
[ SOURCE: PRENSA LATINA ]
