Today’s ceremony in Oslo to award Nobel Prize winners turned into a publicity event centered around Venezuela’s warmongering Peace Prize winner,
María Corina Machado, who never appeared for the Dec. 9 press conference and was not present today, Dec. 10. Her team played a dramatic audio message from her, in which she thanked those who had “risked their lives” to help get her out of Venezuela, since she claims that President Nicolás Maduro wants to kill her, and promised she was “on her way,” and would be in Oslo “soon.”
Amidst the orchestrated drama, in which Machado’s daughter Ana Corina Sosa read her message to the ceremony, Norwegian and Ibero-American human rights and pro-peace groups protested the hypocrisy of the Nobel Committee in awarding the peace prize to an individual who has openly invited the United States to militarily invade her country, supported U.S. bombings of boats alleged, without evidence, to be trafficking drugs, and the ultimate insult of dedicating her prize to U.S. President Donald Trump. Granting the prize to Machado has also reportedly caused friction within Norway’s social democratic government.
