Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, AFP reported.

She won "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuelaand for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said in its citation.

The committee chose to focus on Venezuela at this time, in a year dominated by US President Donald Trump's repeated public statements that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, according to AFP.