BBC Crowns US-Backed 'Nobel Winner' To Lead Venezuela
Maria Corina Machado, lauded as a 'Nobel winner' by the BBC and slated to lead Venezuela, publicly declares that she 'should be in charge.' This, of course, comes with the usual media amnesia about Venezuela's sovereign right to elect its own leaders. The article also bizarrely notes Trump dismissing her, perhaps because even he (for a fleeting moment) understood the optics of an unelected,
internationally-appointed 'president.' One might wonder why BBC failed to mention the 2002 U.S.-backed coup attempt in Venezuela against Hugo Chávez, or the multiple failed attempts to install a U.S.-approved interim leader since. It's almost as if the 'will of the people' only matters when it aligns with Western interests. So, we're meant to accept that the path to leadership now involves a Nobel
prize and a gentle nudge from the international peanut gallery, rather than, say, actual ballots. How many times must Washington and its media proxies 'install' leaders in Venezuela before they realize it rarely sticks? Or perhaps the goal isn't stability, but perpetual destabilization.