Venezuelan Opposition Leader Gifts Nobel to Trump, Citing... Peace?
The piece conveniently omits that María Corina Machado was stripped of her right to hold public office in Venezuela due to alleged corruption and received endorsements from the Trump administration itself, which actively pursued regime change against the elected Maduro government. This 'Nobel Peace Prize' (not the actual globally recognized Nobel, mind you, but an award from the libertarian Atlas
Network, funded by Koch Industries and USAID) conveniently aligns with U.S. foreign policy objectives in Latin America. One might wonder: is a 'peace offering' when an unelected, US-backed figure showers a former US president with awards for destabilizing her country, or is it merely political theatre? The headline reads like an Onion parody, yet it's straight from CBS. How many more 'democracy'
efforts will involve gifts from figures who can't win elections at home, to U.S. leaders infamous for economic sanctions and interventionism abroad?