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

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[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 56 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

Absolutely. She is funded by the NED, supports privatization, and other ghoul-like activities.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 48 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Kamala's book tour is going pretty well commercially

[–] gingerbrat@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Weidel from Germany, tho she's not chancellor

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

”Person X fights for Democracy in Bad Country” = ”Person X is an asset”

This axiom has basically never proven me wrong so far.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

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!

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

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.

[–] CleverOleg@hexbear.net 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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).

[–] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

HENRY KISSINGER WON A NOBEL PEACE PRIZE?!!!!!

I never cared terribly much about an arms dealer's attempt to clean up his legacy, but that is vomit inducing.

[–] CleverOleg@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yep, won it as a shared prize with the lead Vietnamese negotiator, who promptly refused the prize because it was so disgusting (common Vietnam W)

[–] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

Nobel Peace Prize is consistently given to awful people like these.

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 38 points 1 week ago

Nobel Prizes are awarded to most western-NGO aligned people ever.

[–] Skye@hexbear.net 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] godlessworm@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

disgusting 🤢

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 35 points 1 week ago (2 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.

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).

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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).

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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).

[–] godlessworm@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

ew she literally couldn’t be worse lol

[–] ClimateStalin@hexbear.net 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] godlessworm@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

inshallah 🙏🙏

[–] Mangoholic@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

She thanked trump for the sea blockade on Venezuela. Not dure that's how its going to play out.

[–] nefertum@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

They should rename it the kissinger peace prize so it's a farce on its face.

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

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

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

epsteingelion shinji-screm epsteingelion

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago
[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago

Václav Havel Human Rights Prize

lol, I didn't know this existed. Does Lech Walesa have his own ”best comprador” prize too?

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

you killed the man but not the idea guaido

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So like, Juan Guaido but a woman. Typical.

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

She's infamous known for leading the 2004 legislative coup attempt against Chavez (the one Jimmy Carter sided with Chavez), she also took part in the 2002 military coup. I remember at the time Lula da Silva (President of Brazil) and Nestor Kirchner (President of Argentina) called Bush and told Bush to; "Shut that annoying Venezuelan woman up, she's making everything worse, if you want to negociate with Chavez then you better make her shut the fuck up."

Machado and Plaz were invited to meet with National Assembly legislators in August 2006 for an investigation about Súmate's funding but were denied access to the hearing, claiming they received two letters requesting their presence. She also faced treason charges for signing the Carmona Decree during the 2002 Venezuelan coup attempt.

After the coup and the defeat in the recall referendum in 2004, Machado expanded his activities and sought international support for Súmate. In 2005, she visited the White House and met with then-US President George W. Bush. The meeting sparked outrage from Caracas, which alleged that, at that time, not even the Venezuelan ambassador in Washington could secure a meeting with Bush.

One of Machado's main proposals is to privatize most of Venezuela's public assets and companies, including the oil company PDVSA. The company is the main source of foreign exchange revenue for the state and, despite the crisis and sanctions, remains the most dynamic hub of the Venezuelan economy. Machado, however, has not yet presented a plan for how she would execute the sale of the state-owned company.

The proposal is based on ultra-liberal ideas that Machado has defended for years and that are in the statutes of the party she founded in 2012, Vente Venezuela: a minimal state, the predominance of private property, and the leading role of the business sector.

In the social sphere, despite remaining neutral on issues such as the legalization of abortion and marriage equality, Machado adopts a conservative discourse that resonates among more radical opponents of Chavismo, in addition to being in tune with some far-right political forces in other countries, such as the Vox party in Spain, and with figures linked to "Bolsonarism" in Brazil.

Proof of this is that the former Venezuelan deputy is one of the signatories of the Madrid Charter, a manifesto created in 2020 with the support of various far-right factions and figures, such as Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, Javier Milei, president of Argentina, and Giorgia Meloni, prime minister of Italy.

the one Jimmy Carter sided with Chavez),

imagine being worse than an American president i-cant

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Wow, that's somehow way worse than I thought/expected. Thank you for better informing me comrade.

[–] Dr_Gabriel_Aby@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The Juan Guaido of women!

Edit: this joke was made better and earlier like 4 times, I am truly sorry for being late to the game. I rescind my post and hope to be the first to make this joke in the next post about this lady. Thank you all.

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

chuckling every time I read your username, it's an all-timer

[–] Dr_Gabriel_Aby@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Truly honored

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

Machado detected

[–] Juice@midwest.social 10 points 1 week ago

The Nobel prize committee is like a bunch of highly educated self important weirdos like the Davos guy. Which is is to say: total morons

[–] SunSunFuego@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

you guys give credibility to the nobel peace prize?

fckn barack "fuck arabs" obama got one.