Act One. Curtain rises: A woman, visibly moved, approaches the people, makes promises, and speaks of tyrants and dictators. Curtain falls, and behind the scenes, the same woman appears, calling for a military invasion of her own country.
Act Two. Curtain rises: The protagonist attempts to demonstrate—with "democratic" interest—the incompetence of a supposedly failed state. Curtain falls: Her extremism led the U.S. government to block the entry of COVID-19 vaccines into Venezuela in June 2020.
Act Three. Curtain rises: The U.S. Secretary of State nominates her for the Nobel Peace Prize. She is awarded it. Curtain falls: after "winning" it, she dedicates it "to the people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support for our cause." Yes, the same man who has some 1,200 missiles pointed at the South American nation.
The protagonist of the play, María Corina Machado, was made up and advised by the White House, which also financed this elaborate performance and, above all, promoted it to the world.
Meticulously crafted, the figure who appears on stage to be the antithesis of Venezuela's constitutional president, Nicolás Maduro, is just a pawn being moved by Washington to achieve—so far without success—its destabilizing goals.
Thus, this award is nothing more than one of the many ways to demonize Chavismo and justify rampant neoliberalism, the privatization plans unveiled in the last presidential elections, and the active promotion of external aggression, such as the more than 1,000 unilateral coercive measures that are strangling the Venezuelan family economy, by the leader of the Vente Venezuela party.
Machado disregarded the results of the 2024 presidential elections even before going to the polls, as her running mate, Edmundo González Urrutia—who only contributed his name to the ballot—did not sign the agreement recognizing the election results, which had been signed by the other candidates since June. This would be her formal announcement of the coup attempts that would follow, especially with the support of terrorist commandos, organized crime groups that attempted to disrupt the post-election tranquility in the country, paid for by the extreme right and its most loyal ally: the United States.
What has been rewarded then, the betrayal of the country, of its people? Peace? Does the far right even know the meaning of that word? It would seem not, as her political career has been dedicated to achieving "regime change," always through violent means, far removed from the "tireless work to promote the democratic rights of the Venezuelan people and her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy," as claimed by the Nobel Committee.
In this regard, several international figures have stated that this is a Nobel Prize for War, or in other words, against peace. Meanwhile, Hinterlaces reported that 91% of those surveyed expressed their rejection of María Corina Machado, which is significantly higher than that of the rest of the country's political leaders. After the pantomime of extremism, the curtain fell without applause.
FACTS THAT THE NOBEL COMMITTEE "FORGOT":
2002
She signed the Carmona Decree, an attempt to institutionalize the coup against Hugo Chávez, for which she was sentenced to 29 years in prison. She was later granted amnesty.
2004
Her NGO Súmate, funded by the US, collected signatures to bring Hugo Chávez to a recall referendum.
2005
Meeting with then U.S. President George W. Bush, while tensions were growing in both nations.
2014
Alternate ambassador of Panama to the Permanent Council of the OAS, where she called for an invasion of Venezuela.
2014, 2017, 2019
Promoted the guarimbas.
2015
Removed as a deputy to the National Assembly for accepting positions abroad.
2016
Requested a presidential recall referendum.
2017
Administratively disqualified by the Comptroller General of the Republic, which prevents her from holding public office.
2018
Invoked R2P (Responsibility to Protect) to the international community, which would imply foreign military intervention. Asked the National Assembly to activate Article 187 to authorize the use of a multinational force in the country. In a letter, she asked the then president of Argentina, Mauricio Macri, and the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, to activate actions against Venezuela in the United Nations Security Council.
2019
He supported Juan Guaidó's "interim government" and, together with him, allowed the United States to steal important Venezuelan assets, such as Citgo and Monómeros.
2020
He invoked the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR) and called for "the formation of an international coalition to deploy a Peace and Stabilization Operation in Venezuela."
2024
Although his disqualification was ratified by the Supreme Court of Justice, he ran for president. He supported outbreaks of violence following Nicolás Maduro's victory and created a website to present falsified election results. He refused to recognize the National Electoral Council. An investigation was opened against him for conspiring with the Biden administration to promote the Bolívar bill to increase the country's economic isolation.
2025
Responsible for a coordinated strategy of armed and false flag actions against the Bolivarian government, putting the lives of the population at risk and attacking public and state facilities, such as the recent attempted attack on the US embassy in Caracas.
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