María Corina Machado

María Corina Machado
María Corina Machado
	Machado in 2023
Member of the National Assembly; for Miranda
	In office; 5 January 2011 – 21 March 2014
Succeeded by	Ricardo Sánchez
Personal details
Born	7 October 1967 (age 58); Caracas, Venezuela
Political party	Vente Venezuela (2012–present)
Other political; affiliations	Unitary Platform; Democratic Unity Roundtable; Súmate (2001–2010)
Spouse(s)	Ricardo Sosa Branger (m. 1990; div. 2001)
Children	3
Education	Andrés Bello Catholic University; Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración
Awards	Nobel Peace Prize (2025)
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María Corina Machado Parisca (born 7 October 1967) is a Venezuelan politician and industrial engineer. She was a member of the National Assembly of Venezuela from 2011 to 2014. She is known as an opposition politician and critic against the Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro presidencies.

Machado was the founder and former leader of the Venezuelan volunteer civil organization Súmate. In 2018, she was listed as one of the women in the BBC series, 100 Women.^[1] She unsuccessfully ran for President of Venezuela in 2012 and 2024.

She has supported an American military intervention to oust the Maduro government.^[2]

In 2025, Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition for dictatorship to democracy".^[3]

Early political career

During her early political career, she was a critic of President Hugo Chávez.^[4]

Machado was a candidate in the 2012 presidential election but lost the opposition primary to Henrique Capriles. During the 2014 Venezuelan protests, Machado was one of the lead figures in organizing protests against the government of Nicolás Maduro.^[5]

2024 presidential election

She was a precandidate for Vente Venezuela in the primary elections of the Unitary Platform of 2023, although on 30 June 2023 she was disqualified for fifteen years from running for office.^[6] Her disqualification was confirmed by the Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela in January 2024.^[7]

After winning the primary elections, Machado was named the opposition candidate for the 2024 presidential elections,^[8] though she was replaced by Corina Yoris on 22 March 2024. Yoris was prevented from registering as a candidate and was temporarily replaced by Edmundo González Urrutia.

In August 2024, Machado announced that she had gone into hiding because of fears for her life and freedom under the authoritarian Maduro regime.^[9]

References

↑ "BBC 100 Women 2018: Who is on the list?". BBC News. 19 November 2018. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
↑ "Julie Turkewitz: Fear and Hope in Venezuela as U.S. Warships Lurk". The New York Times. 2025-09-28. Retrieved 2025-09-28.
↑ Nobel Peace Prize 2025
↑ Turkewitz, Julie; Herrera, Isayen; Fernandez, Adriana Loureiro (2024-07-24). "The 'Iron Lady' of Venezuela Threatens to Unseat Its Autocrat". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
↑ Kurmanaev, Anatoly (23 December 2014). "Venezuela Protests Drive Poor to Maduro as Death Toll Mounts". Business Week. Archived from the original on 13 March 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
↑ Armas, Mayela; Sequera, Vivian (30 June 2023). "Venezuela opposition candidate Machado barred from holding office-gov't". Reuters. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
↑ "Venezuela's Supreme Court disqualifies opposition leader from running for president". Le Monde.fr. AFP. 27 January 2024. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
↑ Garcia Cano, Regina (26 October 2023). "María Corina Machado is winner of Venezuela opposition primary that the government has denounced". Associated Press. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
↑ Vipers, Gareth (10 October 2025). "Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Venezuelan Opposition Leader María Corina Machado". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 10 October 2025.

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[BBC100-1] "BBC 100 Women 2018: Who is on the list?". BBC News. 19 November 2018. Retrieved 23 July 2019.

[2] "Julie Turkewitz: Fear and Hope in Venezuela as U.S. Warships Lurk". The New York Times. 2025-09-28. Retrieved 2025-09-28.

[3] Nobel Peace Prize 2025

[:1-4] Turkewitz, Julie; Herrera, Isayen; Fernandez, Adriana Loureiro (2024-07-24). "The 'Iron Lady' of Venezuela Threatens to Unseat Its Autocrat". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.

[5] Kurmanaev, Anatoly (23 December 2014). "Venezuela Protests Drive Poor to Maduro as Death Toll Mounts". Business Week. Archived from the original on 13 March 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2014.

[Armas2023-6] Armas, Mayela; Sequera, Vivian (30 June 2023). "Venezuela opposition candidate Machado barred from holding office-gov't". Reuters. Retrieved 30 June 2023.

[lemonde270124-7] "Venezuela's Supreme Court disqualifies opposition leader from running for president". Le Monde.fr. AFP. 27 January 2024. Retrieved 8 March 2024.

[GarciaCanoOct26-8] Garcia Cano, Regina (26 October 2023). "María Corina Machado is winner of Venezuela opposition primary that the government has denounced". Associated Press. Retrieved 27 October 2023.

[WSJ22-9] Vipers, Gareth (10 October 2025). "Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Venezuelan Opposition Leader María Corina Machado". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 10 October 2025.

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