The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, has not commented on the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to María Corina Machado, his main opponent and who remains in hiding after threats of imprisonment from Chavismo. However, he lashed out against Machado.
“Demonic witch”, Maduro said to Machado this Sunday, also calling her a “Sayona” -a popular Venezuelan legend- amid a gathering of indigenous people commemorating 533 years since the arrival of Spanish colonizers in America, which in Venezuela is called “Indigenous Resistance and Decolonization Day of Our America”.
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Maduro did not comment further on the opponent, but took the opportunity to assure that “the imperialists will never be able to defeat us”, referring to the United States, a country that has maintained warships near the Venezuelan coasts for two months, in addition to some four thousand soldiers.
The Venezuelan leader also announced that he will launch the “indigenous Bolivarian militia in the country”, which, he said, will be made up of indigenous people.
He also asked for the formation of “internationalist militia brigades of the peoples of America to come and defend Venezuela if necessary.”
Maduro insisted that he “will win peace” and that while “they (USA) persist in a supremacy already defeated, we stand firm with our millenary resistance.”
Nobel Prize for Maria Corina Machado
Last Friday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the opponent of the Maduro regime, María Corina Machado, was the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Hours later, Machado dedicated his award to the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and to Venezuelans.
In an interview with the newspaper El Mercurio, Machado, 58 years old, stated that “It has been a very long and painful road, but I feel that we are reaching the final hours.”
He also said that “It has had an impressive effect. It is very beautiful because Venezuelans say ‘we all earned it’. This is a recognition of their feat, of society. A country that is united in a tremendously painful moment, but with enormous hope.”
The former congresswoman went into hiding in August of last year, after Chavismo attributed the victory in the presidential elections of July 28, 2024, to Nicolás Maduro, although they still haven’t shown the records of those elections, and that according to the records gathered by the opposition, the winner was Edmundo González, now exiled in Spain.
