Posted on 10/17/2025 12:06:23 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Ms. Machado’s efforts to reclaim a stolen election by any available means, including military intervention, has long galvanized her supporters. Her opponents say these hard-line policies have a political cost.
Last year, María Corina Machado, the leader of Venezuela’s opposition, was forced into hiding by the country’s autocrat after he stole a presidential election Ms. Machado’s movement had won.
Now, Ms. Machado is the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, U.S. warships are floating near the Venezuelan coast and the United States is calling President Nicolás Maduro a “narco-terrorist” and a fugitive from American justice.
The Nobel award has galvanized Ms. Machado’s movement. But it has also highlighted the challenges Ms. Machado faces in meeting the expectations of Venezuelans hungry for political change, while also focusing scrutiny on her hard-line tactics.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee noted Ms. Machado's work to achieve a “peaceful transition” to democracy. Yet her efforts to topple Mr. Maduro have included calls for a military insurrection and unconditional support for President Trump’s military strikes against boats in the Caribbean that he says are smuggling drugs.
“You can’t negotiate with a criminal narco-terrorist apparatus from a position of weakness,” Ms. Machado told Fox Noticias this month, referring to Mr. Trump’s military pressure. “The path to peace lies through liberty, and to have liberty you must have strength.”
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The NYT must be talking about the Democrat Party struggle because America is not a democracy but a REPUBLIC.
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The headline is referring to Venezuela.
A Nobel Prize isn’t what it used to be. Now it merely a political instrument.
NPR called her “far right”!
Google it.
Surprised they didn’t refer to it as a “Counter-Revolution”.
NPR called her “far right”!
Coming from NPR, that would put her somewhere between Bernie Sanders and Joseph Stalin. ;~)
If my recollection of previous articles are correct, the CIA has been authorized to go into Venezuela.
Some how or another I now see Maduro accidentally falling out of a tenth story window or similar and somehow or another Machado winding up taking over.
My recollection of history is that there was a coup south of the border at least once a year in one of those countries, whether they needed a coup or not. Maybe the those times are returning.
Noriega was a “fugitive from American justice” as was Osama Bin Laden. I am sure the fellow in Caracas is considering all that.
Sometimes the only way to have peace is to utterly destroy evil.
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