Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado

Check her Twitter. She supports Trump.

She has to support anybody who doesn't side with Maduro. If Trump starts "admiring" or "falling in love with" or something new, she would backtrack.

See I truly respect President Boric from Chile, it’s one of the few progressive leaders from the region that has been outspoken about the Maduro regime and calling it what it is: a dictatorship. Unlike other leaders of the region who could be doing way more.

It’s pretty understandable for Mrs. Corina to take whatever support she gets internationally.

Let's see what Trump has to say about her...

Yeah, I'm wondering if the Nobel Peace prize has anything to do with peace for people, or for her neoliberalism stance of protection of the free market that would usher peace for the business interests of oil companies [0].

I must confess I am no Venezuelan political expert, and it always gives me pause whether the economic siege that has been laid against Venezuela with the sanctions is about democracy, or about access to unrestricted markets (a la United Fruit Company — now Chiquita — and Standard Fruit Company — now Dole plc).

[0]: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKU-8MCO10P/

The problem in South America is that both versions are true. The outside exploitation pressures are extremely strong, so any vaguely socialist government succumbs to the temptation to squash the outside agitators .. and any local opposition who actually have a valid point or real anti-corruption objections. Running a moderate social democrat centrist country in that situation is not stable, instead you get pendulum swings from left to right and back again, with significant human cost along the way.

(exception maybe Costa Rica?)

To be clear, Venezuela is long past the "popular socialism" phase and decayed into the "strongman holding on" phase.

I'm guessing he will take credit for her getting the prize.

That’s like saying Volodymyr Zelenskyy supports Trump. Foreign politicians operate outside of U.S. domestic politics - they don’t get to choose other countries’ leaders. Their job is to use diplomacy to navigate international politics in whatever shape those politics happen to be in.

Not blanket support, only in relation to Venezuela. Which isn't hard. Even for the orangutan...

Including from a certain genocidal regime in the middle east which she supports:

https://x.com/VenteVenezuela/status/1286346531591852036

Providing her with this award while Trump's naval battle groups stand ready to attack Venezuela isnt helping arrest the collapse of the west's moral authority.

Probably not, but it also sheds some light on left leaning democracies that are too soft with the Maduro regime just because they share some ideology.

Exactly. People talk as if she’s voting for the guy.

It's because he is the current president of the US and US support it's key for the liberation of Venezuela, she also supported Biden and Kamala Harris, have Kamala Harris won she would have "supported" her. And it's not like she supports Trump, she is not on favor of his policies but she knows his support it's necessary.

She said her favorite politician was Thatcher, so seems like a right-wing liberal.

She supports the sanctions against Venezuela. I wonder what her views are on US-backed military regime-change and blowing-up random Venezuelan boats.

Fuck. I should have qualified the above with "Not necessarily blanket support".

A little further research and she sounds like Mrs orangutan.

There is also a substantial amount of mostly unexploited rare earth elements like Coltan.

She has explicitly stated she is in favor of those acts of violence against her country.