Nobel 'Peace' Prize Descends Further Into Farce With Machado Award - Venezuelanalysis

Nobel 'Peace' Prize Descends Further Into Farce With Machado Award - Venezuelanalysis

The run-up to this year’s Nobel Peace Prize had many fearfully expecting Donald Trump to win the award. But in an unexpected twist, the Nobel Committee found an equally (un)deserving far-right lunatic: Venezuelan fascist opposition leader and number one US lackey María Corina Machado. The prize, created by an arms manufacturer and awarded by a NATO member, has long been an exercise in Western imperial hypocrisy. Past winners have included the li…

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Much to the disappointment of US President Donald Trump, on 10 October the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Maria Corina Machado. In the words of the Committee the award was “…for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.” I’ll come back to this claim further below. But first it is important to understand bette…

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