i have somehow never heard of this woman but she sounds like a CIA asset to me

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    Lets suspend her Nobel Peace Prize while we figure this out.

    I vote we give the interim Peace Prize to Juan Guaido until a proper result can be determined.

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    Fascist women are having a really good moment. This lady, the new Japanese PM, Le Pen, Meloni, who am I missing? At least Keiko Fujimori and Jeanine Añez are out.

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    The only time when they give the award to folks in the global south is when they either are doing the bidding of the colonial, imperialist powers (like Machado here) or when they force the oppressed to share the award with their oppressors (like Le Duc Tho and Mandela).

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      Nobody ever fights for democracy. They fight for material things: peace, land, and bread; liberation from colonialism; end to genocide; women’s rights. “Democracy” in the way it gets thrown around is just a bit of a floating signifier that maybe in some vague sense means due process and a Western style of governance that gives the appearance of offering certain rituals to the masses to make them think they have power, like giving your little sibling the controller when it’s not plugged in. Nobody fights for that. They get paid to “fight” for that.

      The obvious counterexamples I think liberals would cite would be the French and American revolutions, to which I say that the fact these historical events have been mythologized as simple struggles for democracy and freedom from tyranny instead of multifaceted class struggles is proof of what I’m saying. The Montagnards clearly weren’t going for “freedom and democracy” or even just the idealistic notion of a society with strong human rights. They were going for, in a time before revolutionary theory was developed, communism, but were defeated by bourgeois Girondins and eventually formed a bourgeois republic. If you do a materialist analysis of the so-called American Revolution you get the opposite, that there was effectively no faction of the settlers who seeked a truly equitable and just new order, but a group of land and slave owning white men who wanted to secure their class position from the conflicting interests of the crown. Democracy doesn’t play a role there at all!

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    Ah yes, when we advocate for revolution, it is ‘violent and authoritarian’, when they advocate for intervention and mass violence they get a Nobel Peace Prize.

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    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).

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      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).

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        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).

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    In 2020 Machado’s party, Vente Venezuela, formalised a pact with Likud “to forge an alliance between our two parties to cooperate on issues related to strategy, geopolitics and security, among others, in order to create an operational partnership”. “The goal is to bring the people of Israel closer to the people of Venezuela while advancing, together, the Western values to which both parties subscribe: freedom, liberty, and a market economy”, reads the document signed by both organisations.

    In 2018, Machado asked Netanyahu to intercede with the UN Security Council to bring about intervention in Venezuela. Machado has insistently stated that if she gains power she will restore diplomatic relations with Israel.

    certified far-right freak. unless it’s a feeble attempt at reverse psychology, imperialism prize continues it’s proud tradition.

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    Nobel Peace prize committee is playing 5D chess.

    Trump was about to invade Venezuela, with this woman being the likely person to be installed

    She gets the peace prize, Trump hates her and aligns with Maduro instead, peace in our time

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    Not doing anything, only coming out of hiding to make a meaningless symbolic gesture in an election, getting fucking obliterated and then jagoff about it until the next election?

    This is how you ethically keep your liberals (if you have to). They love that shit, and yet they still complain catgirl-huh

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    Who the fuck cares about the Nobel Peace Prize anyway? Obomber won it in between burning brown kids alive world wide with thousand pound bombs. Fuck the institutions of the west that pat itself on the back. They all only exist for imperialism.

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      yeah its some propagandist bullshit. i don’t even know who tf is deciding on this shit or why im supposed to care who they think the special little boy of the year is. im sure they’ve given it to some deserving people before but those people were already relevant in the first place to be nominated and win. if anything these people are just leeching off the relevance of the names they put out there

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        i don’t even know who tf is deciding on this shit

        Oh do I have a story for you, behind the scenes it’s mostly one guy

        This guy whose Wikipedia article used to have a scandals page but it must have been scrubbed in the last few years so no one would see this

        ALL ROADS IN THE WEST LEAD BACK TO JEFFREY EPSTEIN

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