Raphael Machado
The victory of Maria Corina Machado for the Nobel Peace Prize comes as no surprise. It fits the award perfectly.
The victory of Maria Corina Machado for the Nobel Peace Prize comes as no surprise. It fits the award perfectly.
The Nobel Peace Prize is the most subjective and the most susceptible to political and geopolitical instrumentalization among the prizes established by Alfred Nobel. Let's remember that in 2009, Barack Obama received it-apparently for no other reason than being "the first black U.S. president" and speaking in a soft and confident manner. Shortly after, he would be bombing a dozen countries and plunging Libya, in particular, into a spiral of chaos and bloodshed from which it has never recovered.
The following years only intensified this trend. Apparently, even to be nominated and considered for the prize, one of the main criteria is being linked to some NGO receiving money from George Soros. There isn't a single Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony without a range of such NGO activists.
And precisely because of this, there also isn't a single year without a multitude of "human rights defenders," "freedom defenders," "independent journalists," "social activists," "opposition figures," and "democrats"-specifically from counter-hegemonic countries, the so-called "rogue states"-among the nominees. And it's increasingly common for them to win.
In the last 5 years, 4 of the winners fell into this category.
The exception was last year, when, under the shadow of growing tensions between the U.S. and Russia, the prize was given to a Japanese organization dedicated to raising awareness about the risks of nuclear conflict.
In 2021, the prize was given to the Russian Dmitry Muratov, a convicted anti-patriot exposed as a "foreign agent" in his own country who has been trying for years to bring down Putin. In 2022, the prize was given to the Belarusian hybrid agent Ales Bialiatski, an enemy of Lukashenko, as well as to a Russian NGO and a Ukrainian NGO, both funded from the West. In 2023, the prize was comically awarded to the Iranian feminist Narges Mohammadi, on the heels of that whole ridiculous controversy about the hijab.
It's almost as if they are taking turns targeting opponents from countries in the "Axis of Evil." A few years ago it was China, then Russia, Belarus, Iran... and now Venezuela.
Maria Corina Machado is yet another one of these sadly pathetic figures elevated to "leader" of the Venezuelan opposition. Her political biography is typical for people of her ilk.
Educated at Yale, her early career was broadly funded by the National Endowment for Democracy-one of the most important Western tools for co-optation, social engineering, color revolution, and regime change. This funding occurred mainly through the NGO Súmate, once involved in the attempt to overthrow Hugo Chávez via a coup. Another relevant connection for Maria Corina is the Davos Forum, which promotes her as "the future of Venezuela," precisely for her ability to combine the most disastrous neoliberalism with the most caricatured wokeness-after all, Maria Corina promises to introduce gender ideology with full force in "backward" Venezuela.
Maria Corina came to the forefront, however, under the wing of the pathetic clown Juan Guaidó, as his "minister." The fictional president of Venezuela became a comedic relief figure for posterity, but his recognition by a handful of Western pirate countries allowed him to confiscate CitGo and PDVSA reserves abroad, as well as gold stored in London. All with the signature of Maria Corina Machado.
Where the Venezuelan assets are today, nobody knows anymore. They disappeared into the mist of the "crusade for democracy."
Yes, Maria Corina Machado is a common criminal, a thief and mercenary who bears direct responsibility for the suffering of the Venezuelan people. Awarding her the Nobel Peace Prize leads me to believe that sooner or later, they will be awarding it to an international drug dealer, or something like that.
Now, where does this award come from? Why now?
The nomination coming from Marco Rubio is no coincidence, nor is the award being given amid tensions with the U.S. On other occasions when the prize was given to enemies of their own country, the Nobel Peace Prize served to legitimize increased pressure on the country in question, as happened in the Iranian case.
This, therefore, is the context of the award at this timing: it is about legitimizing any possible action to be taken by the U.S. government against Nicolás Maduro, under the argument of restoring democracy and defending human rights.
In short, just another farce among so many others.