A book by María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan political activist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in October, is coming in 2026.
Skyhorse will publish Machado’s The Freedom Manifesto in the winter, the press announced in a news release. It says the book “presents the basic values and principles on which not only her government program is based, but also her vision of the state and the new national project she envisions for Venezuela.”
Machado, a native of Caracas, Venezuela, co-founded the nongovernmental vote-monitoring group Súmate in 2002 and has been an active opponent of authoritarian Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro since he took control of the country in 2013.
She went into hiding last year after Maduro was declared the winner in the country’s presidential election, which was dismissed as unfree and unfair by international observers. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in October, with the Norwegian Nobel Committee saying that she won the award “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.” She shocked the world by escaping Venezuela via a dangerous sea voyage to appear in Oslo, Norway, shortly after the award ceremony.
The Freedom Manifesto, Skyhorse says, “brings together the testimonies of dozens of Venezuelans who know the horrors of the previous regime well because they have stood up to it in various ways. Each of these stories reflects and exemplifies many others like them—stories of pain and abuse, but also of light, strength, courage, and hope.”
The book is scheduled for publication on Feb. 3, 2026.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
