The Troubled Game of María Corina Machado, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
She presents herself as the moral embodiment of Venezuelan democracy, brandishes a Nobel Prize as a universal standard-bearer, and proclaims herself the future president of a country still under geopolitical tutelage. Yet by placing her faith in Washington, flattering Donald Trump, and turning democratic symbolism into political currency, María Corina Machado lays bare the deep contradictions of an opposition that confuses the struggle for freedom with the conquest of power. Behind the carefully curated democratic façade, the backstage reveals a […]
