Nobel Peace Prize 2025: Venezuelan Politician Maria Corina Machado
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Re: Nobel Peace Prize 2025: Venezuelan Politician Maria Corina Machado
#2Truly shameful. Does anyone take the Nobel peace prize seriously since Obama won it?
Re: Nobel Peace Prize 2025: Venezuelan Politician Maria Corina Machado
#3Truly shameful. Does anyone take the Nobel peace prize seriously since Obama won it?
What do you consider shameful about this?
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.
Re: Nobel Peace Prize 2025: Venezuelan Politician Maria Corina Machado
#4Truly shameful. Does anyone take the Nobel peace prize seriously since Obama won it?
What do you consider shameful about this? 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.
I am hoping this is simply a joke and commentary on the current administration's obsession with a previous President.
Re: Nobel Peace Prize 2025: Venezuelan Politician Maria Corina Machado
#5Truly shameful. Does anyone take the Nobel peace prize seriously since Obama won it?
What do you consider shameful about this? 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.
María Coria Machado very much fits the mold of someone approved by exemplars of western neoliberalism. See for example "María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan Margaret Thatcher" (https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-10-01/maria-co...). So the comparison to Obama in the comment you respond to is particularly apt.
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.
Re: Nobel Peace Prize 2025: Venezuelan Politician Maria Corina Machado
#6Truly shameful. Does anyone take the Nobel peace prize seriously since Obama won it?
What do you consider shameful about this? 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.
>What do you consider shameful about this?
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.
Re: Nobel Peace Prize 2025: Venezuelan Politician Maria Corina Machado
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you consider shameful about this? 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.
>What do you consider shameful about this? 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 h…
The most hilarious fact about her is that just after receiving the goddamn "peace" medal, she called for the invasion of the Republic she's supposed to represent and defend. Imagine becoming a traitor just to get the favours of a dying fascist Empire.
Re: Nobel Peace Prize 2025: Venezuelan Politician Maria Corina Machado
#8Truly shameful. Does anyone take the Nobel peace prize seriously since Obama won it?
What do you consider shameful about this? 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.
All the personal risk she suffers, she deserves. She's literally rooting for an imperial takeover of the Bolivarian Republic.
Re: Nobel Peace Prize 2025: Venezuelan Politician Maria Corina Machado
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you consider shameful about this? 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.
All the personal risk she suffers, she deserves. She's literally rooting for an imperial takeover of the Bolivarian Republic.
From another perspective – she wants to restore democracy in her country and wishes it again to become a prosperous society with growing economy.
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.
Re: Nobel Peace Prize 2025: Venezuelan Politician Maria Corina Machado
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
>What do you consider shameful about this? 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 h…
The most hilarious fact about her is that just after receiving the goddamn "peace" medal, she called for the invasion of the Republic she's supposed to represent and defend. Imagine becoming a traitor just to get the favours of a dying fascist Empire.
War is Peace. Peace prize is actually war prize.