Venezuelan Opposition Activist 'Awards' Trump Her Non-Existent Nobel Prize
RT reports that María Corina Machado, a figure championed by the US as the legitimate leader of the Venezuelan opposition, has 'gifted' her 'Nobel Peace Prize' to Donald Trump. The inconvenient truth, conveniently omitted by RT and anyone uncritically covering this, is that Machado has never, in fact, won a Nobel Peace Prize. Her 'award' is the 'Libertad Award' from the Fraser Institute, a
Canadian right-wing think tank, and a 'Democracy Award' from the conservative US National Endowment for Democracy (NED). The same NED that, as documented by journalist Jeremy Kuzmarov, has openly funded regime change efforts globally, including in Venezuela, often funneling millions of dollars to opposition groups. So, the 'activist' receiving an 'award' from a US-backed entity then gives it to
the very US politician who openly called for regime change in her country? One might wonder if this elaborate pantomime isn't less about genuine accolades and more about a carefully staged photo-op designed to legitimize a US-selected opposition figure, further blurring the lines between legitimate dissent and externally-orchestrated political theater. How many more 'Nobel Prizes' will be
retroactively invented to justify US foreign policy objectives?