Twenty-three years, failed coup, treason charges, one Nobel Prize: The making of María Corina Machado
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María Corina Machado wins the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for democracy in Venezuela despite her ties to the 2002 coup and support for U.S. sanctions. The Nobel Committee picked someone who supports war crimes over those who are fighting against them.

Turns out she has been on the Venezuelan political scene for quite some time.

October 10, 2025, María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize for ‘promoting democratic rights’. The Nobel committee congratulated her and praised her “tireless work” for democracy in Venezuela. Ironically, on April 11, 2002, Machado signed away democratic institutions in an attempt to overthrow a democratically elected government, and twenty-three years later, she is the flagbearer of Western democracy.

Pretty short article, worth a read.

  • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.worldEnglish
    93·
    4 days ago

    Were in a fascist state led by a cabal of pedos who bow down to Putin and Netanyahu, starting arbitrary wars, and conducting an ethnic cleansing on its own people.

    we already had a foreign coup.

      • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.worldEnglish
        32·
        4 days ago

        Not sure about principles, yhea, foreign coups are bad. but the US us in such a state that I don’t think another foreign coup could make things worse. especially for immigrant communities (stuck in the greencard process, did it all legally, but the system has been halted for so long it puts me at a serious risk of being disappeared).

        The jews in Germany were probably glad there was a foreign intervention to end the nazis.

      • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
        22·
        3 days ago

        You cannot possibly be serious, that anyone should defend that man on the pretense of any principled stance. He is ‘at best’ the most useful idiot in American history (which is saying something) and more likely he belongs on a short list of the worst people to come out of the 20th century.

        Principles? I would not piss on the man if he caught flame. I would not stop him from solving the puzzle box from Hellraiser. Nobody owes him any measure of decency or common feeling, and he is no rightful claimant to the sentiments of humanity. He is an avowed malignant narcissist with no love, no charm or sense of humour, no empathy, no wit, and nothing but proud scorn for his many victims. You could hardly create a more loathsome being from whole cloth, and any ill that befalls him is a genuine cause for joy. Under no circumstances should you allow your principles to comfort him.