The Nobel Peace Prize lost credibility by awarding María Corina Machado, said former IMF executive director Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr.in your X account.
According to him, the committee rewarded a “politics controlled by Washington” instead of people fighting the “genocide in Gaza.”
Like the Brazilian economist, a series of politicians and authorities condemned the granting of the award to the Venezuelan opposition.
“No comments”, wrote the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, on her social networks, when commenting on the choice for the Nobel Peace Prize. The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, and former president Evo Morales, of Bolivia, also posted messages of repudiation.
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize is also questioned by human rights educator at the Observatory for Dignity at Work, Marisol Guedez. According to her, María Corina had “no concerns” about peace in Venezuela.
In interviews with the newspaper Brasil de Fato, Guedez recalls that María Corina promoted a series of violent acts in Venezuela.
“She called for violent events that went beyond legal frameworks. They were not meeting spaces for a democratic path with social justice,” he said.
Leaders at the government base compared the Venezuelan woman’s role to that currently played by deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP). Like Bolsonarista, Corina supported economic sanctions imposed on Venezuela by the Trump administration in 2017.
Representatives of the Brazilian right, such as federal deputy Nikolas Ferreira (PL-MG), in turn, celebrated the Venezuelan oppositionist’s award on social media.
On a personal note, the special advisor to the Presidency of the Republic, Celso Amorim, said that the Nobel Prize “prioritized politics over peace” when rewarding the leader of the opposition in Venezuela.
“I don’t know the Nobel criteria. Nor do I doubt María Corina’s personal qualities. I had read a reference to a post by a White House spokesperson, apparently withdrawn, in which he said that the Nobel Committee prioritized politics over peace. Personally, I found it interesting,” Amorim told CNN Brasil, this Friday.
Nobel Peace Prize
The Norwegian Committee announced this Friday (10) the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado, leader of the Venezuelan opposition.
In a statement, the committee said that the award was granted “for their tireless work in promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and their struggle to achieve a fair and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”
“As leader of the democracy movement in Venezuela, Maria Corina Machado is one of the most extraordinary examples of civil courage in Latin America in recent times,” said Committee President Jørgen Watne Frydnes in Oslo.
