Twenty-three years, failed coup, treason charges, one Nobel Prize: The making of María Corina Machado
www.wionews.com
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.

  • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    4 days ago

    The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded Machado the peace prize on October 11. Even though this is not as disturbing as that of Henry Kissinger and Aung San Suu Kyi.

    Hol up.

    • Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      3 days ago

      Yea the Nobel peace prize is a much of a joke as “times person of the year”

      Spoiler alert Hitler won times man of the year.

      • SanguinePar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        Although Time’s Man (now Person) of the Year is about who has had the most impact in a given year, it’s not meant to be an honour or endorsement of the person chosen, or at least not officially. Not is it something Hitler “won”. He was named it.

        In their wording, he was "the newsmaker who most influenced world events for better or worse” in that year (1938), which tbh is hard to argue with.

        From this article about it,

        Time named Hitler 1938’s Man of the Year in its Jan. 2, 1939, issue, whose cover illustration, did not feature the portrait of Hitler in the circulating posts, but rather a black-and-white drawing depicting Hitler as a small figure playing a large organ with the caption: “From the unholy organist, a hymn of hate.”

        • Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          7 hours ago

          The capitalist times news sided with Hitler only because industrialists like Hitlers approach to state and capitalist union rather than the soviets approach to industrialists

    • squaresinger@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      4 days ago

      They literally give that thing away to any politician who manages to not doze off during the nomination talks.