ACTION ALERT: Shame on the
Nobel Peace Prize Committee!
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(October 10, 2025) — When I saw the headline “María Corina Machado wins the Peace Prize,” I almost laughed at the absurdity. But I didn’t, because there’s nothing funny about rewarding someone whose politics have brought so much suffering.
Anyone who knows what she stands for knows there’s nothing remotely peaceful about her politics. If this is what counts as “peace” in 2025, then the prize itself has lost every ounce of credibility. I’m Venezuelan-American, and I know exactly what Machado represents.
She’s the smiling face of Washington’s regime-change machine, the polished spokesperson for sanctions, privatization, and foreign intervention dressed up as democracy.
Machado’s politics are steeped in violence. She has called for foreign intervention, even appealing directly to Benjamin Netanyahu, the architect of Gaza’s annihilation, to help “liberate” Venezuela with bombs under the banner of “freedom.” She has demanded sanctions, the silent form of warfare whose effects – as studies in The Lancet and other journals have shown – have killed more people than war, cutting off medicine, food, and energy to entire populations.
Machado has spent her entire political life promoting division, eroding Venezuela’s sovereignty, and denying its people the right to live with dignity.
This Is Who María Corina Machado Really Is:
👉 She helped lead the 2002 coup that briefly overthrew a democratically elected president and signed the Carmona Decree that erased the Constitution and dissolved every public institution overnight.
👉 She worked hand in hand with Washington to justify regime change, using her platform to demand foreign military intervention to “liberate” Venezuela through force.
👉 She cheered on Donald Trump’s threats of invasion and his naval deployments in the Caribbean, a show of force that risks igniting regional war under the pretext of “combating narcotrafficking.” While Trump sent warships and froze assets, Machado stood ready to serve as his local proxy, promising to deliver Venezuela’s sovereignty on a silver platter.
👉 She pushed for the U.S. sanctions that strangled the economy, knowing exactly who would pay the price: the poor, the sick, and the working class.
👉 She helped construct the so-called “interim government,” a Washington-backed puppet show run by a self-appointed “president” who looted Venezuela’s resources abroad while children at home went hungry.
👉 She vows to reopen Venezuela’s embassy in Jerusalem, aligning herself openly with the same apartheid state that bombs hospitals and calls it self-defense.
👉 Now she wants to hand over the country’s oil, water, and infrastructure to private corporations. This is the same recipe that made Latin America the laboratory of neoliberal misery in the 1990s.
Machado was also one of the political architects of La Salida, the 2014 opposition campaign that called for escalated protests, including guarimba tactics. Those weren’t “peaceful protests,” as the foreign press claimed; they were organized barricades meant to paralyze the country and force the government’s fall.
Streets were blocked with burning trash and barbed wire, buses carrying workers were torched, and people suspected of being Chavistas were beaten or killed. Even ambulances and doctors were attacked. Some Cuban medical brigades were nearly burned alive. Public buildings, food trucks, and schools were destroyed. Entire neighborhoods were held hostage by fear while opposition leaders like Machado cheered from the sidelines and called it “resistance.”
She praises Trump’s “decisive action” against what she calls a “criminal enterprise,” aligning herself with the same man who cages migrant children and tears families apart under ICE’s watch while Venezuelan mothers search for their children disappeared by U.S. migration policies.
Machado isn’t a symbol of peace or progress. She is part of a global alliance between fascism, Zionism, and neoliberalism – an axis that justifies domination in the language of democracy and peace. In Venezuela, that alliance has meant coups, sanctions, and privatization. In Gaza, it means genocide and the erasure of a people. The ideology is the same: a belief that some lives are disposable, that sovereignty is negotiable, and that violence can be sold as order.
If Henry Kissinger could win a Nobel Peace Prize, why not María Corina Machado? Maybe next year they’ll give one to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation for “compassion under occupation.”
Every time this award is handed to an architect of violence disguised as diplomacy, it spits in the face of those who actually fight for peace, like the Palestinian journalists in Gaza who, with no safety or rest, document the bombings, name the victims, and keep the truth alive when the world looks away.
Tell the Nobel Committee that they are uplifting war criminals, not peacemakers!
To the Members of the Nobel Committee:
Shame on you for awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado — a woman who openly supports genocide in Gaza and the violent overthrow of popular movements across Latin America.
Sadly, this is not surprising. Your committee once honored Henry Kissinger and other architects of war and injustice. It is now plain as day: the Nobel Committee continues to celebrate those who undermine democracy and human rights — those who design and defend the slaughter of innocent people.
Machado’s record stands in direct contradiction to the ideals of peace. She helped lead the 2002 coup that overthrew Venezuela’s democratically elected president and signed the Carmona Decree dissolving the nation’s public institutions. She has repeatedly called for U.S. military intervention, endorsed economic sanctions that have killed tens of thousands by cutting off food and medicine, and aligned herself with Israel’s apartheid regime, even appealing directly to Benjamin Netanyahu — the architect of Gaza’s destruction — to “help liberate” Venezuela.
True peacemakers do not call for bombs and blockades.They defend truth, justice, and the sanctity of human life. Today, that title belongs not to war collaborators like Machado, but to the Palestinian journalists of Gaza — those who have risked everything to show the world the brutal reality of Israel’s crimes.
For two years, these journalists have fought on a different front of war — the digital battlefield — documenting the first-ever livestreamed genocide, often by candlelight, in the ruins of their homes. They give names to the dead and voices to the silenced, even as Israel deliberately targets them. Over two hundred journalists have been killed since the genocide began — murdered for the crime of telling the truth. Killing journalists is a crime under international law. So why is a supporter of such lawlessness being celebrated as a “peacemaker”?
The courage and integrity of the Nobel Peace Prize is meant to honor the lives of Gaza’s journalists and civilians, not those who cheer on their suffering.
We, the people, uplift the people of Gaza — those who, even amid genocide, continue to show the world what real freedom, justice, and humanity look like. They have told their own stories so the world could witness the truth — and exposed the greatest purveyors of war and violence: the U.S. war machine and its closest ally, Israel.
Gaza’s journalists and civilians are the true peacemakers. They have already paid the highest price for peace.
In solidarity,
Michelle, Medea, Teri, and the CODEPINK Latin America Team
