Machado is undoubtedly an ally of Benjamin Netanyahu. In the past, the right-wing leader had even declared that if she gains power, she will restore diplomatic relations with Israel.
María Corina Machado had expressed her solidarity with Israel following the surprise October 7 attack by Hamas. Machado, who was then an opposition primary candidate, had criticised Hamas’s “terrorist attacks” on Israel. She had said terrorism must be defeated at all costs and “whatever form it takes.”
In 2020, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner’s party, Vente Venezuela, signed a cooperation agreement with Likud to cooperate on “political, ideological and social issues … strategy, geopolitics and security.” For the unversed, Likud – National Liberal Movement is the right-wing Israeli political party whose chairperson is Benjamin Netanyahu. “The struggle of Venezuela is the struggle of Israel,” she had said on X in 2019.
There is a claim that in 2018 Machado sent a letter to Netanyahu asking for the use of “power” (possibly including military intervention) against the Venezuelan government.
The founding of Venezuelan volunteer civil organization Súmate resulted from a hurried encounter between Machado and Alejandro Plaz in a hotel lobby in 2001, where they shared their concern about the course that was being shaped for Venezuela. Súmate led a petition drive for the 2004 Venezuelan recall referendum of Hugo Chávez (2004 legislative coup attempt after the 2002 military coup failed), then president of Venezuela. After the referendum, members of Súmate, including Machado, were charged with treason and conspiracy, under Article 132 of the Venezuelan Penal Code, for receiving financial support for their activities from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
Pretty interesting how the actual biggest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, the dirty war pursued by Peron’s Argentina, was supported by Israel and the US. I don’t know the history of other Israeli interventions in Latin America, other than the capture and prosecution of Eichmann (which, while on the surface was a exceedingly rare, maybe even unique, ISSrael W, I think was really more of a symbolic victory for the narrative building project of Zionism than an actual movement toward justice for Holocaust victims).
the dirty war pursued by Peron’s Argentina, was supported by Israel and the US.
Although technically the Dirty War began a few months before Juan Perón’s death, the United States and Israel hated Perón (also because of his support to Cuba, China, Bolivia and Allende’s Chile, both Mao and Che wrote some positive stuff in regards of Perón. And Perón openly praised Cuba and China) and always tried to portray him as some kind of anti-American racist (which backfired and turned him into an anti-imperialist in the eyes of the population of the Global South). It was the governments of Isabel Perón and, better known for their anti-Semitism, General Videla’s National Reorganization Process junta who started and organized the Dirty War in Argentina. Israel and the United States openly supported the coup against Isabel.
Videla was a racist and anti-Semite, openly persecuting Jews (Israel did nothing to help these Jews) under the lie that Jews were planning to take over Patagonia to create a new Israel under the conspiracy theory known as the Andinia Plan. They persecuted minorities because they were the main supporters of Perón and left-wing Peronism and because they did not appear sufficiently European or Westernized.
When the Falklands War began in 1982, the Junta released a bunch of leftists and liberals and began to use anti-imperialist rhetoric, especially with the creation of Radio Liberty (a propaganda radio station in English and Spanish aimed at the British and Americans that spread the idea that the Falklands War had the support of all of Latin America and that it was a colonial war).
Pretty interesting how the actual biggest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, the dirty war pursued by Peron’s Argentina, was supported by Israel and the US. I don’t know the history of other Israeli interventions in Latin America, other than the capture and prosecution of Eichmann (which, while on the surface was a exceedingly rare, maybe even unique, ISSrael W, I think was really more of a symbolic victory for the narrative building project of Zionism than an actual movement toward justice for Holocaust victims).
Although technically the Dirty War began a few months before Juan Perón’s death, the United States and Israel hated Perón (also because of his support to Cuba, China, Bolivia and Allende’s Chile, both Mao and Che wrote some positive stuff in regards of Perón. And Perón openly praised Cuba and China) and always tried to portray him as some kind of anti-American racist (which backfired and turned him into an anti-imperialist in the eyes of the population of the Global South). It was the governments of Isabel Perón and, better known for their anti-Semitism, General Videla’s National Reorganization Process junta who started and organized the Dirty War in Argentina. Israel and the United States openly supported the coup against Isabel.
Videla was a racist and anti-Semite, openly persecuting Jews (Israel did nothing to help these Jews) under the lie that Jews were planning to take over Patagonia to create a new Israel under the conspiracy theory known as the Andinia Plan. They persecuted minorities because they were the main supporters of Perón and left-wing Peronism and because they did not appear sufficiently European or Westernized.
When the Falklands War began in 1982, the Junta released a bunch of leftists and liberals and began to use anti-imperialist rhetoric, especially with the creation of Radio Liberty (a propaganda radio station in English and Spanish aimed at the British and Americans that spread the idea that the Falklands War had the support of all of Latin America and that it was a colonial war).
ew she literally couldn’t be worse lol