The fact that the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, María Corina Machado, was not able to receive the prize normally at the ceremony in Oslo and that her daughter had to be present is a measure of how freedoms … They are kidnapped in Venezuela by the infamous dictatorship of Nicolas Maduro and all its international accomplices. The fact that the Nobel Peace Prize winner is forced to live in exile in her country, persecuted, besieged and that her freedom and even her own life are put in danger represents a precise and painful portrait of the situation experienced in a country where the slightest democratic standards are lacking and where a failing and finite system like Chavismo, which is perhaps living its last moments, refuses to collapse.
Machado can speak in the first person about the systematic criminalization of the opposition and the authoritarian use of force by the Caracas regime, who has become a righteous heroine in the eyes of the world in the battle for the rights of her compatriots. It is worth remembering that for more than a year the politician opposed to Maduro’s fraudulent government has been living in an unknown place, hidden and kidnapped in her own country, a territory in which the rights of those who dare to oppose the administration as little as possible are not respected. Machado, who defended freedoms alongside election candidate Edmundo González, managed to demonstrate with enormous audacity that the ruling party had manipulated the electoral results. In a parallel story, he managed to show the world 80 percent of the minutes in which a clear defeat was depicted, which Chavismo was unable to accept. Citizen protests courageously demanding justice in the streets across the country were cruelly repressed in an operation of systematic violence against citizens that left more than a thousand detained and added hundreds to the thousands of people tortured, raped and exiled for whom Machado became the image and defender at the risk of losing her own life.
The Nobel Prize awarded to her represents a ratification of the honorable position of a fighter for freedoms in the world at the head of a movement of millions of people who, although they have painfully suffered from the lash of dictatorship, do not despair in their mission to bring democracy back to their country. One of the victories of Machado and his people was to tip the scales of the region and promote a Washington position against the Maduro regime, an operation against the narcoterrorist organizations which is currently suffocating it diplomatically and militarily and which could bring it down for good.
The new international panorama cannot be understood without Machado and his tireless work. It is, however, difficult to understand how the illegitimate government in Caracas continues to have necessary accomplices, many of whom are embodied in the European left. With the awarding of the Nobel Prize, we saw how many leaders of the Spanish ultra-left called her a putschist, in a lamentable reversal of responsibilities and in a selfish confusion between victim and perpetrator of the crime. We have also seen how certain figures of the new left who govern in Spain show condescension when they do not directly support the heirs of Chaves. We cannot forget that one of the main supporters of the emasculating Chavista dictatorship is Rodríguez Zapatero, who negotiated the departure from the country and the political neutralization of Edmundo González and acts as diplomatic support, if not as money launderer, of the Venezuelan government, in a maneuver that, today more than ever, embarrasses our country.
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