Díaz-Canel rejects Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Venezuelan opponent

Havana, October 11 - The President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, rejected today the decision to award the Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado with the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, considering it to discredit the distinction.

"It is shameful to award this Prize in 2025 to a person who incites military intervention in her homeland and has previously called for street protests where people were burned alive," stated the head of state on the social network X.

He also assured that "the politicization, bias, and discrediting of the Norwegian Nobel Committee for Peace has reached unprecedented limits."

"We firmly reject this political maneuver that seeks to singularize Venezuela and undermine its Bolivarian leadership, headed by its legitimate President, Nicolás Maduro Moros," Díaz-Canel declared.

On Friday, María Corina Machado was recognized with the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, according to the decision of the Norwegian Committee, for tirelessly promoting the rights of the Venezuelan people and fighting for a fair and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

The Committee, based in Oslo, chose María Corina Machado from a pool of 338 candidates, including 244 individuals and 94 organizations. (Text and photo: PL)