For the second time it is necessary to write about the prestigious award given by a committee of the Norwegian Parliament.
HAVANA, Cuba. – Just a few days ago (the 6th of this month) I consecrated my most recent article to the theme of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. I never assumed that in such a short time I would have to devote another journalistic job to that same issue, but the realities of the information world have forced me to do so.
As you will remember, in my aforementioned previous article I was based on the confidence I had: that, by the coming December, the benefits of the Peace Plan for Gaza launched by US President Donald Trump would have become evident to everyone. In those circumstances—I thought—“it would be scandalous if Norway denied him the recognition he deserves.”
But it is clear that by surrendering this Friday, there is no time to check the outcome of the conflict. Both parties (Israel and Hamas) have already announced their acceptance of the Peace Plan launched by Trump. Everything indicates that once the terrorist organization returns the civilian hostages it took during its brutal attack on October 7, 2023, the reasons for the Hebrew country to continue its bombings of the Gaza Strip will disappear. It is therefore reasonable to hope that peace will spread in the Palestinian enclave, but the practical materialization of these ideas remains to be seen.
In the meantime, this Friday it was announced that the commission appointed by the Norwegian Parliament had awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to the undisputed leader of the anti-dictatorial struggle in Venezuela: María Corina Machado. And I must confess that, in acting in this way, the commissioners have chosen one of the few people whose selection does not arouse any objection in this journalist; but, on the contrary, enthusiastic support and applause.
And it is clear that, in Our America, there are three dictatorships in which the boasts of democracy that their respective regimes make from time to time only provoke repulsion: Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. It is not by choice that the Dominican organizers of the next Summit of the Americas chose not to invite those three governments! Bravo to the Quisqueyan democrats!
I hope that no one feels ignored if I affirm that, in what we could call the “Triad of Oppression”, María Corina has been precisely the person who has stood out the most in the fight for the reestablishment of civic freedoms and the return to democracy.
She was right to raise the flag of the turnout for the presidential elections of July 28, 2024. That process ended with an overwhelming victory for the opponent Edmundo González Urrutia, which was demonstrated by the generality of the minutes of the different electoral colleges (which the opposition published immediately, while the regime has not done so in more than a year; which demonstrates the character liar of his claims to victory).
The award recently awarded to Mrs. Machado doubles the Sakharov award that, in December 2024, was awarded to herself and the opposition candidate González Urrutia. When the European Parliament had not yet decided on the granting of its also prestigious award, I expressed my hopes that our compatriot José Daniel Ferrer would receive it. But I was pleased with its granting to the pair of Venezuelan brothers.
Now the Nobel awarders have chosen to individualize the prize in María Corina, and this seems fair to me. It is clear that, if it had not been for the manipulations of the Maduro dictatorship and the electoral authorities attached to it, the unitary opposition candidate would have been Machado. Seeing her aspiration banned due to official arbitrariness, she did not hesitate to support González Urrutia, who, if he won by a wide margin, was thanks to that support.
Meanwhile, the “socialists of the 21st century” have not let the occasion pass without attacking the well-deserved award: Cubadebate starts your information in this regard with the phrase “Nobel Peace Academy joins the anti-Venezuelan strategy.” In Spain, the corrupt leader of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, could not think of anything better than to exclaim in your X account: “They could have given it to Hitler”…
A co-religionist of the aforementioned character, the podemita deputy Javier Sánchez Serna, breathed for the wound: “I look forward to China and the BRICS setting up their own awards.” It is clear that these communists long for the times when the Soviet Union awarded the happily disappeared Lenin Prizes.
Meanwhile, let’s start the countdown towards October 2026. God willing, by then the peace plan for Gaza launched by Donald Trump will have gained permanence and will have more than demonstrated its viability and efficiency in ending the terrible war in that enclave. Then we will see if the Norwegian commissioners are able to put aside their animosity for the current US president and award him the Nobel even if only reluctantly, or if they perpetrate the obscenity of denying him.
