Nobel Peace Prize 2025: Venezuelan Politician Maria Corina Machado
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On the surface it looks like Maria fits the mold of previous winners pretty well other than perhaps her efforts are confined to her nation and have less global impact, but that isn't a requirement.
I find it impressive that she has managed to have this impact while at great personal risk.
My own view is that anyone labeled "pro-democracy" in the western establishment press is immediately suspect, given what "democracy" has devolved into in the leading western societies. This is not someone who is working in the best interests of the majority of Venezuelans. Rather, like most in the opposition, she is working towards the restoration of the status quo ante, where the ruling class ruled, and every one else knew their place.
So yeah, shameful. But unsurprising.
From the article:
>should Mr. Maduro fall, her movement was prepared to take territorial and administrative control of Venezuela...
>She has also touted an economic plan to American and other investors...
This is what "pro-democracy" really means. She is calling for military intervention against her own country, with an implied promise to give "investors" access to Venezuela's natural resources. In most places this would be called treason.
Also, NYT: "Venezuela’s autocratic leader...". Let me know when you call Mr. Trump "America's autocratic leader" and we'll be good.
and, NYT: "the Carter Center [...] found that count to be accurate." No. It said the count could not be independently verified, which is not the same thing.
None of this is the stuff of a Peace Prize.
The fact that she's a far-right Zionist-genocide-lover agitating for a fascist-regime-USA military takeover of Venezuela so she can get filthy rich off selling absolutely everything in the country for peanuts?
Yeah, I wonder why it's shameful.
Honestly, they should have just given it to Trump outright. It's a meaningless mark of shame either way, might as well let him have his toy.
And perhaps your attitude is why it is more globally relevant than many people think. Many countries have fallen into this lack of democracy that needs to be restored. Cuba is the closest example.