Venezuelan democracy activist María Corina Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize
Machado, the opposition leader in Venezuela, has largely been in hiding since last year's presidential elections. She's recognised "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela" and "her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy". Machado is "one of the most extraordinary examples of civilian courage in Latin America in recent times."
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@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow It seriously is not. The opposition in Venezuela has been consistently ignored by America. Trump attempted to do an oil deal with Maduro.
@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Presidential elections were held in July 2024 (from which Machado was banned participating). International observers generally agree that Edmundo Gonzalez won the popular vote. He fled to Spain after sustained harrassment. The Maduro government declared victory without any evidence and the country has been in a state of political crisis and repression ever since.
@SunshineGirl Well yes. Committing treason generally gets you banned from elections.
Again. What international observers? What evidence did they have. The exact same claims were made against Chavez and Maduro for 20 years with zero evidence. In many cases the evidence was the exact opposite.
And you seem determined to ignore the fact that you blindly support someone who
A) participated in a coup.
B) and is bankrolled by a branch of a country that has been trying to topple their government for 2 decades.
That would be like claiming someone who participated in the January 6th riots and is financed by the Communist Party of China would be a legitimate candidate in the US elections.
@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Look we've all had fun in an all inclusive in Cuba, there were tons of you Canadians there but you don't need to go all out 🤭
@SunshineGirl This is also not the first time the Nobel committee has picked an absolutely insane pick and deliberately misrepresented them as some kind of martyr for peace and democracy like Liu Xiaobo who was a Chinese man who despised all things Chinese and advocated for the eradication of Chinese culture and language and suggested China should be colonized by a western power for 300 years to "fix it".
@SunshineGirl Also if you go back and look at what actually happened during the 2024 presidential election. The claim that the opposition member Gonzalez won, literally came from the opposition themselves. Claiming they won based on polling stations reporting to them. No third party observers were involved.
And the fact there even is an opposition completely blows up the nonsense of "single party rule." and dictatorship.
Then Anthony Blinken made a pronouncement from Washington that Maduro's victory was not the will of the people. I guess he is psychic.
But no serious person would take the word of either major party in any election as a neutral source on the results of the election.
