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.
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.