Nobel Peace Prize to Machado denounced
Willian Rodriguez said the Nobel Peace Prize has lost its credibility in recent years
The Norwegian Nobel Committee decided to award the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuela’s Maria Corina Machado. The activist received the prize “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy,” the Committee explained in a statement.
However a Venezuelan lawmaker has condemned the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado, the leader of Venezuelan far-right opposition. The award has certainly become politicized .
The Nobel Committee’s decision was made in Washington’s interests to exert psychological pressure, justify the deployment of US armed forces, including destroyers, a nuclear submarine, landing ships, warplanes, in the Caribbean region and unleash aggression against Venezuela, Rodriguez stressed.
“The United States is seeking to install a puppet government in Venezuela to halt its cooperation with Russia and China, to dismantle BRICS and stop the development of a multipolar world,” he pointed out.
“The fact that the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Machado is outrageous and shameful,” Willian Rodriguez, a member of Venezuela’s National Assembly and vice president of the Podemos party.
According to Rodriguez, the Nobel Peace Prize has lost its credibility in recent years. “When we compare nun Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s president, who were awarded this prize to what we see today, we understand that the Nobel Peace Prize is now awarded to proponents of war, who have thousands of innocent victims on their conscience,” he said.
The politician recalled that Machado is responsible for numerous casualties during the mass unrest, was involved in an attempt to ship a large batch of weapons disguised as humanitarian aid to Venezuela, calls for US intervention in the republic and supports the US illegal sanctions against Venezuela’s economy. Moreover, in his words, she supports Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.
“But the United States is disregarding the fact that Venezuela’s armed forces and the Venezuelan people will defend their motherland’s territorial integrity, the right to independent development, and sovereignty with arms in their hands,” he added.
Even Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel called the decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado shameful and noted the “unprecedented scale of politicization and bias” of the Nobel Committee.
“It is shameful that this prize in 2025 was awarded to somebody who incites military intervention in her homeland, and in recent years to street protests during which people were burned alive,” Diaz-Canel said on X. “The politicization, bias and discrediting of the Norwegian Nobel Peace Committee has reached unprecedented proportions,” he said.
