María Corina Machado Net Worth

Background and career

María Corina Machado Parisca (born 7 October 1967), also known as MCM, is a Venezuelan politician, activist, and prominent leader of the opposition to the administrations of Hugo Chávez, Nicolás Maduro, and Delcy Rodríguez. She served as a member of the National Assembly of Venezuela from 2011 to 2014, and has run as a candidate in presidential elections. She was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.

An industrial engineer with a master's degree in finance, Machado began her political career as a founder of the vote-monitoring organization Súmate. She is the National Coordinator of the political party Vente Venezuela and ran in the 2012 opposition presidential primary, which she lost to Henrique Capriles. During the 2014 Venezuelan protests, she played a leading role in organizing demonstrations against Maduro's government.

In 2023, Machado won the opposition primary for the 2024 presidential election. She was barred from running for being disqualified according to the Venezuela’s Supreme Tribunal of Justice. Edmundo González ultimately replaced her as the candidate. The election results were highly disputed, the opposition parties mobilized to collect vote tallies from voting machines which portrayed González as the winner of the election, although the Maduro government claimed victory instead. In the aftermath, Machado said she went into hiding, expressing fears for her life and freedom.

Aside from the Nobel Peace Prize, she was named one of BBC's 100 Women in 2018, and listed among Time magazine's 100 most influential people in 2025. In 2024, Machado received the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize and the Sakharov Prize (shared with González) for representing Venezuelans fighting for democracy.