Nobel Peace Prize winner hailed Trump as 'visionary' just days before her victory

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/maria-corina-machado-nobel-prize-trump-venezuela-b2843103.html

The Nobel Peace Prize winner hailed Trump as a “visionary” just days before she won the prestigious award in Norway on Friday.

María Corina Machado, a conservative politician in Venezuela, was given the award for her work in “promoting democratic rights,” according to the Nobel committee.

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Since Trump’s reelection, Machado has been an outspoken supporter of the U.S. president, describing him as the “biggest opportunity we’ve ever had” for regime change in Venezuela.

Tensions between Venezuela and America soared following the attack, but Machado insisted to The Sunday Times that Trump was right to bomb the boat. “I totally support his strategy,” Machado said. “And I’ve said on behalf of the Venezuelan people that we are very grateful. I think it is the right thing to do. It’s courageous. It’s visionary.”

[GusBob]

1. MAGA gonna throw you under the bus lady

Then call a drone attack on the bus

Don’t need to be a fortune teller to visionary that

[newdeal2]

2. A strange choice to me

But I’m still glad he didn’t get it

[UTUSN]

25. Turns out she's MAGA, under the bus for me, too.

[a kennedy]

3. Well this is concerning.

[Ocelot II]

12. Not at all. She's an interesting person, not a "conservative" as we would define that term.

Machado began her political career as a founder of the vote-monitoring organization Súmate. She is the National Coordinator of the political party Vente Venezuela and ran in the 2012 opposition presidential primary, which she lost to Henrique Capriles. During the 2014 Venezuelan protests, she played a leading role in organizing demonstrations against the government of President Nicolás Maduro.

In 2023, Machado won the opposition primary to become the unity candidate for the 2024 presidential election.The Venezuelan government subsequently barred her from running in the election. She named Corina Yoris as a replacement candidate, who was later replaced by Edmundo González Urrutia. The election results indicate that the opposition won the election, but the Maduro regime claimed victory. Shortly thereafter, in August 2024, Machado announced that she had gone into hiding, citing fears for her life and freedom under the authoritarian Maduro regime....

Domestically, Machado has called for the banning of reelection to political office, is in favor of same-sex marriage, supports the legalization of medical cannabis, and has called on a national debate regarding the legality of abortion [which is currently illegal in Venezuela]....

Machado was awarded the 2024 Václav Havel Human Rights Prize by the Council of Europe. She was one of three finalists along with Akif Gurbanov and Babutsa Pataraia. Along with Edmundo González, she was awarded the Sakharov Prize by the European Parliament on 24 October 2024 for "representing the people of Venezuela fighting to restore freedom and democracy."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Corina_Machado

She supports Trump's actions wrt Venezuela because she's been calling for international efforts to depose Maduro - who really is a bad guy, more like Trump himself. I think she's a pretty good choice, considering her decades of effort to ensure fair elections in her country and the persecution she's been subject to on account of those efforts.

[niyad]

24. Thank you for this added information.

[Raven123]

26. Thank you for the information

[kysrsoze]

4. FFS - he didn't do anything to earn it. What's wrong with this woman? Has everyone forgotten Ukraine?

He hasn't said jackshit about it.

[Ocelot II]

5. An interesting wrinkle in the story. How will Trump spin her award?

[GusBob]

6. Indeed

Hey the prize winner says it’s OK to bomb folks Willy-nilly!11

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. She spun it for Trump, soooo....

Link to tweet

Full text:

This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom.

We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy.

I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!

[iemanja]

11. Wow. And he bombs her citizens.

[Ocelot II]

15. She is calling for international efforts to depose Maduro, even if it means fluffing Trump.

[Ocelot II]

17. Let's see how he spins *that*.

[niyad]

7. Thank you for this disturbing information.

[MakeThemCry]

9. WTF.com!?!???

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

10. Actually lady, he's just a lowly, "televisionary" of the reality tv genre.

[moondust]

13. Looks like she's a bad choice.

Extrajudicial murder is courageous and visionary? Apparently she gets the medal simply for loudly opposing Maduro and his dictatorial ways.

[Ocelot II]

16. She's done a lot more than that.

See my post above.

[moondust]

19. That may be.

But she would seem to lack a moral compass (like her 'courageous visionary') which I would personally consider a disqualifier.

[Initech]

14. Well that's fucking disgusting.

[leftstreet]

18. +1

[Fiendish Thingy]

20. She's not exactly a voice for peace, is she? Nt

[JI7]

21. Venezuela is a fucking disaster

She isn't American so I think she should be judged based on her actual actions regarding her own country.

Trump sucks but the amount of suffering people are going through is less than in Venezuela. This isn't because of Trump but becsuse the US is stronger.

But it's more about the situation in Venezuela where the people that are from there would rather be in the US including under Trump than there.

I don't know much about her so so I would need to know more. But this prize has previously gone to people that turned out to be shit so recieving the prize itself also doesn't gaurantee they will be good .

[Liberal In Texas]

22. The old enemy of my enemy...

Trump hates Maduro so he's all for her. Has said so in the past. If she gets into a position of power in the government and Trump continues to blow up Venezuela's fishing boats, she might change her tune.

[Hotler]

23. Praising and supporting the orange convict is not "promoting democratic rights," IMO. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

27. It's a setup for next year's prize.

Her words seem scripted.

[Clouds Passing]

28. Nobel Committee made a disgusting choice!

[maveric]

29. Being a visionary is not necessarily a good thing.

There have been many evil ones throughout history.