{"id":62300,"date":"2025-10-11T15:19:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T13:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uccronline.it\/eng\/?p=62300"},"modified":"2025-10-11T15:19:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T13:19:26","slug":"maria-corina-machado-a-nobel-peace-icon-with-her-rosary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uccronline.it\/eng\/2025\/10\/11\/maria-corina-machado-a-nobel-peace-icon-with-her-rosary\/","title":{"rendered":"Mar\u00eda Corina Machado: A Nobel Peace Icon with Her Rosary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-129932\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uccronline.it\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/maria-corina-Machado-rosario.webp\" alt=\"maria corina Machado nobel rosario\" width=\"604\" height=\"317\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>Who is <strong>Maria Corina Machado<\/strong>, the Catholic leader awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. With the <strong>rosary<\/strong> she leads a prayer movement for the spiritual liberation of <strong>Venezuela<\/strong>.<\/i><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Promote the democratic transition with the <strong>rosary<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is the nutshell summary of the personality of <mark><strong>Mar\u00eda Corina Machado<\/strong><\/mark>, winner yesterday of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Who is Mar\u00eda Corina Machado<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Anti-communist<\/strong>, she is the Venezuelan leader of the opposition to the regime of <strong>Nicolas Maduro<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her political path indeed combines a long militancy against socialist governments, starting with that of Hugo Ch\u00e1vez, with a personal tension that has cost her isolation, censorship and constant restrictions on her public actions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After being excluded from the 2024 presidential elections due to judicial measures, Machado acted <strong>in hiding<\/strong>, symbolically embodying civil resistance at the heart of the Venezuelan system. Unlike millions of other dissidents, <strong>she did not leave Venezuela<\/strong> and tenaciously leads the democratic resistance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yesterday the Nobel Committee honored her as <i>\u00aba woman who keeps <strong>the flame of democracy<\/strong> alive amid growing darkness\u00bb<\/i>, making her <i>\u00abone of the most extraordinary examples of civic courage in Latin America\u00bb<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Machado, a Nobel with the rosary<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">58 years old, <strong>self-declared Catholic<\/strong>, she graduated from the Jesuit university of Caracas and likes to wear <strong>multiple rosaries around her neck<\/strong>, some with the national colors of Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2024 <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elnacional.com\/2024\/04\/con-un-rosario-al-cuello\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she put herself at the head<\/a><\/em><\/strong> of the movement <i>&#8220;Spiritual Defense of Venezuela&#8221;<\/i> which aspires to the integral liberation of the nation, <strong>both physical and spiritual<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She thus promoted <strong>a national prayer movement<\/strong> alongside the <strong>peaceful protest<\/strong> because, <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vidanuevadigital.com\/2024\/08\/24\/maria-corina-machado-reza-un-rosario-tras-fallo-del-tribunal-supremo-que-adjudica-victoria-a-maduro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she said<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, <i>\u00abVenezuelans need security and strength more than ever, because we are walking <strong>hand in hand with God<\/strong> on this path and because our destiny will be a good, healthy and joyful Venezuela, united with our children\u00bb<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Machado dedicated the Nobel Prize to the <strong>Venezuelan people<\/strong>, calling them co-participants and drivers of change, and explicitly <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-10-10\/machado-congratulated-by-trump-dedicates-award-partly-to-him?embedded-checkout=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mentioned<\/a><\/em><\/strong> the support of the United States and <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> as a fundamental ally in the battle for freedom.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-129933\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uccronline.it\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/maria-corina-Machado-rosario2.webp\" alt=\"maria corina Machado rosary nobel\" width=\"606\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>The (little) doctrinal coherence<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One cannot, however, fail to recall some positions of Mar\u00eda Corina Machado that are <strong>not very consistent<\/strong> with the social doctrine of the Church.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infobae.com\/venezuela\/2023\/03\/06\/maria-corina-machado-se-pronuncio-a-favor-del-matrimonio-igualitario-la-marihuana-medicinal-y-el-aborto-en-caso-de-violacion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In 2023<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, in fact, she declared herself in favor of <strong>marriage between people of the same sex<\/strong> and regarding adoption for these couples she said she was <i>\u00abin favor of the well-being of children\u00bb<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Regarding <strong>termination of pregnancy<\/strong>, in Venezuela it is allowed only when the mother&#8217;s life is at risk. Machado answered that she has &#8220;religious convictions&#8221; but supports decriminalization in cases of rape, adding that <i>\u00abI would never impose my opinions, in this case those of a religious nature, on society\u00bb<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We unfortunately know very well that a deep personal faith <strong>does not always translate<\/strong> into doctrinal coherence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nevertheless, remains <strong>the image of a woman<\/strong> who chose to stay, to pray and to resist in the heart of an oppressed nation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In such a context, the rosaries around her neck and her Marian devotion represent for millions of people <strong>a declaration of faith<\/strong> in the future of Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-129935\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uccronline.it\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/maria-corina-Machado2.webp\" alt=\"maria corina Machado nobel rosary\" width=\"408\" height=\"453\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Corina Machado, Catholic Nobel Peace Prize winner. 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