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Maria Machado Makes It To Norway
4 days ago
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In one of the least deserved Nobel Peace Prizes after Obama and Kissinger. Maria Corina Machcado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. She showed up a bit late for it, though.
I suspect that Alfred Nobel only added the peace prize becausr he felt guilty for inventing dynamite.
I heard a version of this story on KQED, my local NPR station twice yesterday, though apparently they haven't posted it, which is unusual:
https://www.northcountrypublicradio.....machado-escape
I find Bryan Stern's fawning worship of Machado and the way it was echoed in this story nauseating. She's a far right representative of the wealthy class in Venezuela, has no interest in peace, and supports Trump. When it was announced that she had won the Nobel Prize, she dedicated it to him, saying that he deserved it. -Guess she knows whose boots to lick. She supports Trump deposing Maduro, and his illegal murders of Venezuelan fishermen.
I don't support Maduro, but I support Trump meddling in other country's governments even less. Chávez did a lot of good things for the people of Venezuela, but at that time they were making a lot of money from oil. At that time oil was over $100 a barrel, but then the oil market crashed, and the price of oil dropped to half of it's previous price, killing Venezuela's economy. A few disatrous decisions and a bit of corruption later, this is what Maduro inherited. Maduro is far more corrupt than Chávez ever was, and also experienced heavy sanctions from the US, which ended up completely wiping out their economy, resulting in the loss of something over 100,000 lives there, and driving an epic wave of migration, which has been felt all over South and North America.
Trump has hypocritically lashed out against Venezuelans, blaming them for immigrating to the US, dehumanizing and criminaliziing them, saying such BS as that Maduro was "Emtying their jails and asylums" and sending them here. I even heard a former US ambassador the other day blaming all of the Venezuelan's problems on Maduro, while completely ignoring our brutal sanctions. Sanctions universally end up hurting the citizens of the country we apply them to FAR more than the government. They're economic warfare.
Stern also said in the version of this story that I heard that he had no assistance From the government, but I have to be rather dubious about that, since I heard that she had been holed up in the US embassy in Caracas.
I suspect that Alfred Nobel only added the peace prize becausr he felt guilty for inventing dynamite.
I heard a version of this story on KQED, my local NPR station twice yesterday, though apparently they haven't posted it, which is unusual:
https://www.northcountrypublicradio.....machado-escape
I find Bryan Stern's fawning worship of Machado and the way it was echoed in this story nauseating. She's a far right representative of the wealthy class in Venezuela, has no interest in peace, and supports Trump. When it was announced that she had won the Nobel Prize, she dedicated it to him, saying that he deserved it. -Guess she knows whose boots to lick. She supports Trump deposing Maduro, and his illegal murders of Venezuelan fishermen.
I don't support Maduro, but I support Trump meddling in other country's governments even less. Chávez did a lot of good things for the people of Venezuela, but at that time they were making a lot of money from oil. At that time oil was over $100 a barrel, but then the oil market crashed, and the price of oil dropped to half of it's previous price, killing Venezuela's economy. A few disatrous decisions and a bit of corruption later, this is what Maduro inherited. Maduro is far more corrupt than Chávez ever was, and also experienced heavy sanctions from the US, which ended up completely wiping out their economy, resulting in the loss of something over 100,000 lives there, and driving an epic wave of migration, which has been felt all over South and North America.
Trump has hypocritically lashed out against Venezuelans, blaming them for immigrating to the US, dehumanizing and criminaliziing them, saying such BS as that Maduro was "Emtying their jails and asylums" and sending them here. I even heard a former US ambassador the other day blaming all of the Venezuelan's problems on Maduro, while completely ignoring our brutal sanctions. Sanctions universally end up hurting the citizens of the country we apply them to FAR more than the government. They're economic warfare.
Stern also said in the version of this story that I heard that he had no assistance From the government, but I have to be rather dubious about that, since I heard that she had been holed up in the US embassy in Caracas.
I suspect that was done in order to give them some plausible deniability.