The Norwegian Nobel Committee chose this year to promote the overthrow of the Venezuelan government of Nicolás Maduro, by awarding its long-since besmirched Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado, the opposition leader whom Anglo-American billionaires have designated to take over Venezuela. The committee’s announcement regurgitated the unipolar narrative of a world battle between “democrats” and “autocrats,” and hailed Machado as “a brave and committed champion of peace … amid a growing darkness,” in which “democracy is in retreat” worldwide.
Machado follows in the goosesteps of 2009 Peace Prize winner Barack Obama, who enthusiastically ordered American citizens abroad executed without trial. Machado has already endorsed the execution of her fellow Venezuelan citizens without due process, under the same pretext of “fighting terrorists.”
As U.S. President Donald Trump ordered an over-sized military strike force assembled off the coast of her nation with the capability required to strike and/or invade, Machado told The Times of London on Sept. 13 that Trump’s action is “the biggest opportunity we have ever had. And we won’t let it go…. I totally support his strategy, and I’ve said on behalf of the Venezuelan people that we are very grateful. I think it is the right thing to do. It’s courageous. It’s visionary.”
When interviewed, that U.S. military strike force had blown up the first of now four fishing boats it claims were Venezuelan drug traffickers. The Times questioned if she really supported “attacking a speedboat? Killing 11 citizens?” Machado stood firm: “I’m in favor of the U.S. dismantling this criminal structure.”
Then there is the matter of the Nobel Committee’s assertion that Venezuela is “a brutal, authoritarian state,” which Machado opposes because its people “live in deep poverty, even as the few at the top enrich themselves.” That is indeed rich, given that the Machado project in Venezuela was created and bankrolled from the get-go by and for the “few at the top,” domestic and foreign.
Case in point: in June 2025, Machado (speaking from her “hiding place” in Venezuela via Zoom) promised the big U.S. corporate interests that gather round the Rockefeller family’s Americas Society/Council of the Americas that, if she is installed in power, Venezuela will become the “trillion-dollar opportunity” of the century for them. She promised her program is “to rebuild credibility among foreign investors” through “market liberalization, privatization,” placing Venezuela’s fossil fuels and mineral riches at the top of the list. Venezuela, she promised the Rockefeller crowd, will be “the greatest opportunity for wealth creation in the region for decades to come.”
