Daily reminder that the Nobel Prize was (still is) purely a marketing move to scrub the reputation of the Merchant of Death, Alfred Nobel. Because he got butthurt that the newspapers had the audacity to shed light on the truth about his horrible legacy.
The first Nobel Peace Prize went to the woman he had a crush on and never got over even decades after she dumped his explosive peddling ass.
She also donated the award to Trump and asked him to invade to overthrow the democratically elected socialist leadership.
That’s not great. But. However. Those were not democratic elections in Venezuela. That was a farce.
Maduro won the election, and the US tried to manufacture consent to overturn it.
Given the state of Venezuela’s economy I find is highly implausible that Maduro could’ve actually won. This isn’t to support invasion or Machado, just realistically speaking there’s no way the voters agreed to more Maduro.
I don’t think even 5% of Venezuela’s economic issues derive from Maduro’s government. Not that I like him particularly. We severely underestimate -or pretty much ignore- the actual implications of being subjected to the sanctions and isolation Venezuela has been. And the huge social fracture derived primarily from the middle to upper class being annoyed at having to redistribute wealth for decades ain’t helping. I know this first-hand and the insolidarity, entitlement and neoliberal kool-aid drinking from that part of Venezuelan society is a fucking bleak reality.
I’m not saying Maduro is to blame, but regardless when people feel less well-off it’d take a miracle (or fraud) to win an election.
Why not? He’s fairly popular.
they should’ve given the piss prize to satanyahu
María Cochina Machado
