Maria Corina Machado, applause and squeals

By: Luis Gonzales Posada - 15/10/2025

For the shackled Venezuelan people and its nearly 8 million expatriates, it has been gratifying to learn that María Corina Machado has received the Nobel Peace Prize. But it is also emotional news for the democrats of the hemisphere who have stood by the battered people of the plains for twenty years in their fierce struggle for freedom; an effort that has cost thousands of lives and imprisonment.

Contrario sensu, the forces of darkness, of totalitarianism, of evil, reacted with fury.

One of them, the shady Spanish leader of the Podemos party, Pablo Iglesias, demonstrated his moral character (or excrescence) by stating that "the prize would have been better given to Hitler", an infamous comment elegantly replied to by the award winner when she expressed that

"Depending on who's coming, attacks can be the highest praise."

Maduro broke his initial mournful silence to call her a "demonic witch" and close the embassy in Norway, ignoring the fact that the Academy is an institution independent of the Oslo government.

Former President of Spain, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero,

The despicable employee of the Venezuelan dictator remains silent, as does the insipid head of government, Pedro Sánchez, while the Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, in a pathetic display of cynicism, does not express an opinion with the futile pretext that she "respects the sovereignty of the people," which she failed to do when she pressured our country to reinstate the failed coup leader, Pedro Castillo, as head of state.

Cubans and Nicaraguans are crestfallen, because they perceive the award as a direct blow to their dictatorial regimes.

Russia, Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, the drug cartels, and the Aragua Train hitmen are also in mourning.

For his part, Cuban satrap Miguel Díaz-Canel called the award "shameful," while an enraged Evo Morales, hiding in Chapare to evade an arrest warrant for raping a 15-year-old girl, said that the recognition "is supporting lies over truth, wars over peace, and slavery over freedom," nonsense that projects the psychopathic state of the fugitive coca grower leader.

But, well, now the award is in the hands of a leader we met 12 years ago, on May 16, 2013, when the then mayor of Pueblo Libre, Rafael Santos, welcomed her at a lavish solidarity rally in Bolívar Square, at the foot of the statue of the Liberator. At the end of the civic event, we went to her hotel in Miraflores. Her face was swollen and bruised because on April 30, she had been brutally attacked by a Chavista parliamentarian when she demanded that the speaker of the Legislative Assembly open the doors of the chamber to allow the press in.

Upon taking the stand, she was punched and kicked. She was thrown to the floor, her nose broken, bloodied, while Diosdado Cabello laughed, a deplorable scene captured on television.

Juan Lozano, Colombian journalist and senator, maintained that "those who have suffered firsthand and at close quarters on the border, the horrors of the dictatorship that stole the Venezuelan election and the tentacles of the Cartel of the Suns, wept with joy, wanted to hold a celebratory caravan and a thanksgiving mass because they understand the immensity of the struggle that María Corina decided to wage, what that struggle has represented for Colombia and the immeasurable nature of her courage."

He then adds that María Corina "for love of her people and her country, has defied everything that seems lethal, pestilent, and sometimes invincible in our America...

And all these infamies, one by one and all at once, have been summarized in the diabolical figures of Nicolás Maduro and his entrenched cronies: corruption, drug trafficking, repression, violation of human rights, deceit, cheating, lying, greed, arrogance, cynicism, fraud, abuse of power, evil, cruelty, audacity, impudence, shamelessness."

A woman of admirable temperance, brave,

Unyielding, María Corina has always faced the repression and obstacles imposed by the dictatorship. She won a seat in the House of Representatives, but the government removed her from the Legislative Assembly. Years later, she triumphed in the opposition primaries with 95% of the vote, but was disqualified.

Last year, they didn't allow him to run for president, and in response, he supported Ambassador Edmundo González, who won with 70% of the vote. This was certified by observers from the OAS, the Carter Center, and the European Community. However, the National Electoral Council, a regime-apex, refuses to publish the results, as denounced by the United Nations Panel of Experts, and thus, without further ado, declared the loser, Nicolás Maduro, the winner, extending his term for another six years.

The Nobel Prize, in short, is not only a well-deserved recognition for this courageous social democratic fighter, but also a moral blow to the mafia dictators and their accomplices, as well as a moral encouragement to those who fight against the satrapies.

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