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[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 67 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Incredibly gross pick given the timing with US incitement against Venezuela. Basically manufacturing consent for a war.

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[–] Kopfrkingl@hexbear.net 62 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Machado supports the privatization of state-run entities in Venezuela, including oil company PDVSA

advocated for foreign intervention to remove Maduro on humanitarian grounds.

The glow is too strong cia

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Kopfrkingl@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

Perhaps this letter, but I don't have knowledge of the language

Even trump is congratulating her; they are manufacturing consent.

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Translation:

From María Corina Machado, Venus, Caracas, December 4, 2018.

To Mr. Mauricio Macri, President of the Argentine Republic Casa Rosada. Balcarce 50, C1064) Buenos Aires, Argentina

And Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of the State of Israel, 3 Kaplan St. Hakirya, 91950 Jerusalem, Israel

The Venezuelan people need international protection against the widespread and systematic attacks to which they are subjected by the Venezuelan regime. This is demonstrated in the report dated May 29, 2018, presented by the Organization of American States to the International Criminal Court. This report has served as the basis for nine states, including Argentina, to denounce the regime before that international body. We are deeply grateful for this action, which is crucial to the outcome of the Venezuelan tragedy.

It should be noted that it is not only our population that is suffering from the widespread and systematic attacks of the current regime. Its criminal nature, closely linked to drug trafficking and terrorism, represents a real threat to other countries, including, and most notably, Israel. The current regime, which has hijacked the powers of government in Venezuela, displays its close collaboration with Iran and extremist groups, which, as we all know, pose an existential threat to Israel and have acted on Argentine territory. The tragedies of anti-Semitism experienced at the AMIA in 1994 (Terrorist Attack in Argentina) still resonate across the continent, and their echoes reach our country (literally no one fucking knows about or cares this except for Argentinians and zionist chuds).

I am convinced that the international community, in accordance with the doctrine of the responsibility to protect, is called upon to give Venezuelans the support they need to bring about the urgent regime change required to restore national and international security. For this reason, I have recently sent letters to several of the world's leading leaders with the aim of promoting the adoption of effective protection measures for Venezuela by the United Nations Security Council through the promotion of regime change, a measure that necessarily implies a strengthening of international security. Today, I would like to ask Israel and Argentina to contribute their expertise and influence to move toward sound and urgent decision-making in the Security Council.

Such measures are imperative in the face of a source of hemispheric insecurity such as the regime currently oppressing Venezuela. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organization for Migration have certified that the current crisis of refugees fleeing Venezuela is the largest in the history of the Americas. Argentina is an example of this crisis, having taken in hundreds of thousands of our compatriots, a gesture for which Venezuelans will always be grateful. However, we must be aware that without a change of regime in our country, hemispheric and global security will be at risk.

On the other hand, it should be noted that the significant Jewish community that had settled in the country, a beacon of collaboration, alliances, contribution, and mutual admiration, has been reduced to a small number in recent times. Venezuela was one of the countries that supported Resolution 181 at the United Nations General Assembly on November 29, 1947, which led to the creation of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948. Therefore, it is our hope that the Jewish community will flourish again in Venezuela and contribute to our free development, as it did during the decades of democracy, tolerance, and peaceful coexistence. A Venezuela renewed in its prosperity and democratic tradition will cultivate a close relationship with Israel.

She's literally ignoring the fact Maduro comes from a Sephardic Jewish family that was forced to convert to Catholicism.

Warm greetings from Venezuela, whose national territory I am unable to leave due to the provisions of the tyranny currently ruling my country.

Maria Corina Machado, EMBASSY OF THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC: Date: 051 121 2018.

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 60 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Adding on to the cianess of it all:

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 46 points 1 week ago

When she's right she's right. The Venezuelan liberals are headed the same place as the Zionists.

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nobel Peace Prize being given to some intelligence asset (or useful fool) that advocates for violent intervention in one country while they simultaneously are extending a hand to a western aligned country that is in the midst of an ethnic cleansing?

I'm shocked

[–] poster596@hexbear.net 58 points 1 week ago (6 children)

nobel peace prize says: Hands onto Venezuela.
Straight up manufacturing consent for war, while US troops gather in the bay murdering random fishermen.

They would have been better off even giving it to fucking trump.

[–] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago

They would have been better off even giving it to fucking trump.

They could have even claimed it was for the Gaza ceasefire or something

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[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 53 points 1 week ago

The Nobel Peace Prize has been a joke ever since they gave it to dead-motherfucker

[–] Bob_Odenkirk@hexbear.net 47 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I don’t understand giving an award to people who haven’t achieved anything. Like even by right-wing ghoul standards, this is a participation trophy while Maduro’s government still stands.

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago

The Peace Prize at this point is just an expression of contempt for the opposition to western hegemony

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 1 week ago

It's to give some sort of legitimacy to her, like it or not the average joe thinks nobel prizes matter.

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[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 46 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I'll never understand these people; what do they think they'll achieve if they help America against Venezuela? Does she look at the Iraq war and think wishfully "Ah, that'll be us someday!"

[–] MohammedTheCommunistPalestinian@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Does she look at the Iraq war and think wishfully "Ah, that'll be us someday!"

latin american right is that cucked so yes

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 35 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I am unable to comprehend wishing for your country to be invaded. What level of isolation from everyone you know do you need to want that? You need to be an absolute husk of a person to support that.

[–] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Imagine you were an Israeli, or some of the separatists in the donbass. You'd want your government to be destroyed by military force and welcome an invader.

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago

Imagine you were an Israeli

(CW: self harm)

[–] Bob_Odenkirk@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

I don’t think even leftist, anti-zionists Israelis would want military invasion against themselves, knowing all the hurt it would bring. You’ve got to be especially insulated to be able to handle the Iraq treatment, something only right-wing, state department-aligned ghouls will be.

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago

They don't live in Venezuela, they all live in the US, their wish is to be picked to govern Venezuela as a Colony/Puppet State of the US

You need to be an absolute husk of a person to support that. so a right winger

[–] ClimateStalin@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

Eh, I can comprehend wishing for your country to be invaded

I live in the Great Satan, a guilty land whose crimes will only be washed away with blood. If China (or basically anyone actually) invaded and occupied us I would greet them as liberators

What I can’t comprehend is wanting your country invaded by the United States

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago

I'll never understand these people; what do they think they'll achieve if they help America against Venezuela? Does she look at the Iraq war and think wishfully "Ah, that'll be us someday!"

They don't live in Venezuela, they all live in the US, their wish is to be picked to govern Venezuela as a Colony/Puppet State of the US

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago

concessions to norwegian oil companies? the fuck you think

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[–] Bakzik@hexbear.net 45 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Mamdani already congratulated her?

strangelove

[–] booty@hexbear.net 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nobel Peace Prize continues to mean nothing lmao

remember when they gave one to obama-drone and even he seemed a little confused about it

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[–] AvocadoVapelung@hexbear.net 43 points 1 week ago

lathe-of-heaven trump abandons the venezuelan opposition out of spite

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 43 points 1 week ago

What a fucking joke

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 41 points 1 week ago

They will award a posthumous peace prize to Hitler before the decade is out

[–] MohammedTheCommunistPalestinian@hexbear.net 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

this bitch called for Israel to invade Venezuela

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] MohammedTheCommunistPalestinian@hexbear.net 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

this was years ago and I have tried to find it but can't but here is an article of her making a pact with the likud party of Israel

https://nournews.ir/en/news/52418/Venezuela-opposition-cooperating-with-Israel's-Likud-party

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[–] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

the NPP had always been a joke for euros to pat themselves on the back on how civilized they are. They froze out Ghandi five times just for humiliating the British in India even though he was basically your perfect liberal darling otherwise. More recently, Aung San Suu Kyi won one then went on to enact a genocide against the Rohingya people, what a hero for peace.

Giving it to trump over this loser comprador would have been better for world peace.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Gurlidó as a ta poster put it

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Posted this in the mega immediately after losing my mind at this, then realized I should search for a NPP thread.

Haven't been here in a bit but I needed to vent about seeing the reaction online to María Corina Machado getting the Nobel Peace Prize. So many people are posting "lmao won by a woman, and a Venezuelan woman too, Trump totally owned."

Then doing 15 minutes of looking into this person to find out she supported Trump's terrorist attack on 11 of her own countrymen, called for US military intervention in Venezuela, called for israeli military intervention in Venezuela, supports privatizing the oil industry, was involved in a 2002 coup attempt that tried to dissolve the entire government down to city level positions (mayors!), has literally been on DJT Jr's podcast, has supported the current israeli genocide and states that when she takes control of the government she's putting the Venezuelan embassy in israel into Jerusalem.

Then hours after winning she tweeted, in English, that she was dedicating her prize to Trump anyways!

Absolute freak shit. Constantly seesawing between whether I hate libs or conservatives more. Also, in-between all the "Tankie this Tankie that" that anyone trying to call attention to this gets, I've seen "campist" used as a pejorative for people criticizing this. Fuck anyone who calls people campist, they're just American running dogs with extra steps.

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[–] Kopfrkingl@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Her interview with Donald Trump Jr. where she sycophantizes to Trump and libs out extremely hard. She is extremely eager to privatize the oil industry and make Venezuela the "brightest place in the world for investment by american companies".

[–] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

The more you sell your country to American Oligarchs, the more democratic it is.

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[–] Helios44@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago

Lmfao fuck liberals

[–] Waldoz53@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

she loves trump, israel and margaret thatcher lol

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[–] anaesidemus@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago

sad-boi "I did everything right"

[–] jack@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago

cope posting: Trump is so pissed he didn't get it he refuses to invade Venezuela just to spite her

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I hope Norway realises the blood on their hands if this pisses off trump enough that he take his ceasefire toys home and conflict resumes full force in Gaza

Should have just given him the shiny, its been given to plenty of odious war criminals in the past

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[–] CleverOleg@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They will never under any circumstances award the Nobel to a Palestinian (or even a good European on behalf of Palestine, like Greta or Francesca Albanese) unless it’s alongside someone like Israel Katz or Steve Witkoff.

I really despise European liberals.

(I will admit I was a little worried they would award it to Albanese and that would lead to Trump ripping up the ceasefire agreement)

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