Venezuela’s Vice President says the Nobel to María Corina Machado is an award “stained in blood”

Caracas.– Venezuela’s Executive Vice President, Delcy Rodríguez, considered this Wednesday that the Nobel Peace Prize awarded in Oslo to opposition leader María Corina Machado is a “blood-stained prize.” During a session of the Assembly of the Peoples for Sovereignty and Peace, broadcast by the state channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV), Rodríguez stated that the ceremony for this award was a “wake” and a “total failure”, indicating that Machado did not show up, although her daughter Ana Corina Sosa indicated that the former deputy would arrive in “a few hours” in Oslo. The official attributed the opposition figure’s absence to “fear,” because in Norway – she added – people took to the streets to protest against “a prize stained with blood.”

«Who gathered at that award? Those who have raised their hands in favor of the genocide against the Palestinian people. They went there to applaud a bloody award (…). The genociders who went to the Nobel Peace Prize really did was to discredit an award that is already well discredited», Rodríguez pointed out.

María Corina Machado’s Dedication

This Wednesday, in his speech at the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony, the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Jørgen Watne Frydnes, urged the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, to accept the 2024 election results and to resign from his position to lay the groundwork for a “democracy” in the country. For his part, Machado dedicated his Nobel Peace Prize to all the people of Venezuela and to the “heroes” who fight for the “freedom” of that country, as well as to “the leaders of the world” who supported it, in a speech read by his daughter, who collected the award on his behalf. The act was attended by Venezuelan opposition leader and Machado’s ally, Edmundo González Urrutia, who claims the Presidency of his country, asserting that he was elected in the 2024 presidential elections, despite the electoral body, controlled by rectors aligned with Chavismo, proclaiming Maduro’s re-election, a result recognized by several countries. Machado was the seventh Latin American personality to receive the award. The Norwegian Nobel Committee, based in Oslo, announced in October that they selected her “for her tireless work in promoting the democratic rights of the Venezuelan people and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.” CategoriesWorld, Spain Cover – NewsTagsGovernment, María Corina Machado, Politics, Nobel Prizes, Venezuela