After knowing the verdict by which the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the extreme right leader María Corina Machado, numerous relevant figures from the political and academic world questioned the decision.
The award comes despite acts of violence, conspiracy in destabilizing plans and the push for sanctions and military interventions.
The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, described this Friday as “shameful” the event, while criticizing the “politicization” of the Norwegian committee of these awards.
“The politicization, partialization and discredit of the Norwegian Nobel Peace Committee has reached unsuspected limits,” Díaz-Canel noted in several messages on his social networks.
“We firmly reject this political maneuver that attempts to single out Venezuela and undermine its Bolivarian leadership, headed by its legitimate president, Nicolás Maduro,” said the president.
For her part, the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, said that Mexico will always respect “the sovereignty and self-determination of the people,” and avoided evaluating the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.
“No comments” was the response of the Aztec president when asked about it.
“We have always talked about the sovereignty and self-determination of the people, not only out of conviction, but because that is what the (Mexican) Constitution establishes and I would stop there in the comment,” he expressed.
Meanwhile, the former president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, pointed out that the committee’s decision is “an affront” to history and to the peoples fighting for their sovereignty.
“Rewarding a coup leader, an ally of the financial elites and foreign interests, is turning the symbol of peace into an instrument of modern colonialism,” he emphasized.
Regarding the deputy of the XI Legislature in the Parliament of Andalusia, Spain, Ismael Sánchez Castillo, he stated that the fact that María Corina Machado is the Nobel Peace Prize winner “is neither an anecdote nor a simple media nonsense. It is a criminal and fascist provocation against a noble, dignified and brave people: the people of Venezuela. Machado represents class hatred, contempt for the poor, the surrender of national sovereignty to American imperialism and the perpetuation of an elitist and exclusive model.”
Advocates and academics reject the designation
Human Rights activists and academics also rejected the awarding of the María Corina Machado award.
The Argentine human rights defender, professor and plastic artist, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1980, said he disagreed. «In fact, I don’t know of any activities in the town. On the contrary, he always asked the US to intervene with troops in Venezuela,” he said.
And the writer and professor Juan Carlos Monedero spoke out because in his opinion, it is essential to change the name of the award “so as not to continue tarnishing the memory of Alfred Nobel.”
He said that Machado’s personality “brings together the best of Trump and Netanyahu” and recalled that she is “a woman who in 2002 signed the Carmona decree, which was the attempt to institutionalize the coup d’état against the legitimate president Hugo Chávez. Since then, she has not stopped trying a violent solution, causing many deaths in her country, in addition to supporting the blockade, and that they will not send vaccines in 2019. That is to say, a lady who has a halo of death behind her.
