The president also attacks the Norwegian Nobel Peace Committee.
MIAMI, United States. – The Cuban ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel attacked the Norwegian Nobel Committee this Friday after awarding the 2025 Peace Prize to the Venezuelan opponent María Corina Machado. On Facebook and xwrote: “The politicization, bias and discredit of the Norwegian Nobel Peace Committee has reached unsuspected limits.”
Later, he added: “It is shameful to award this award in 2025 to a person who instigates military intervention in his homeland and in past years street protests in which people were burned alive.” He also stated: “We firmly reject this political maneuver that attempts to single out Venezuela and undermine its Bolivarian leadership, headed by its legitimate president, Nicolás Maduro.”
The Nobel award, announced in Oslo, recognizes Machado “for his tireless work in promoting the democratic rights of the people of Venezuela and for his fight to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy,” according to the jury’s minutes.
As was predictable, the Cuban state media ecosystem aligned itself with Caracas. Cubadebate public a note titled “Nobel Peace Academy joins the anti-Venezuelan strategy and rewards María Corina Machado”, in which the award is framed within an alleged campaign against Chavismo. In CubaYes, an opinion article He described the award as “a Nobel Peace Prize in favor of war” and presented Machado as a “puppet of the empire.”
In Venezuela, the official newspaper SEE disqualified the verdict as “the most recent and cynical manipulation” and concluded: “Let them keep their Nobel Prize for evil and terror. Venezuela prefers peace with dignity.”
Until the closing of this note, the dictator Nicolás Maduro had not spoken. Nor had the “co-presidents” of the Nicaraguan regime, Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, reacted.
In the same way, there has not been an official statement from Mexico, whose government usually shows solidarity with the regimes of Venezuela and Cuba. This Friday, in his usual press conferencePresident Claudia Sheinbaum avoided setting a position. “We have always talked about the sovereignty and self-determination of the people. Not only out of conviction, but because that is what the Constitution establishes. And I would leave the comment at that point,” said the president, alluding to Machado’s Nobel Prize and the dismissal of Dina Boluarte in Peru.
On a second occasion, Sheinbaum was once again summoned to express her opinion about Machado, but, after a brief silence, she only added: “No comments.”
Outside the Caracas-Havana axis, leaders of the Spanish populist left charged against the award. Pablo Iglesias wrote that “to give the Nobel Peace Prize to Corina Machado (…) they could have given it directly to Trump or even to Adolf Hitler posthumously.”
Meanwhile, the general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra, said that “the Nobel Peace Prize is now awarded to coup plotters and war criminals” and that “the degree of discredit that the international institutions that aspired to represent humanity are experiencing in these years is extremely high.”
The focus of the ruling—democracy versus authoritarianism—explains the virulence of the reactions in regimes that feel challenged by the Nobel narrative. The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize places María Corina Machado “at the center of the international board” and exposes, once again, the character of Havana, Caracas and their European ideological allies.
