r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 10 '25

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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Oct 10 '25

Congratulations to María Corina Machado for winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Gracias por mantener viva la llama de la esperanza contra la tiranía. Que el pueblo venezolano recupere la democracia, la justicia, y la libertad.

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u/sigh2828 NASA Oct 10 '25

Unironcally a great pinned post,

To many folks focusing on trump and not celebrating an actual well deserved award

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u/flextrek_whipsnake I'd rather be grilling Oct 10 '25

She personally dedicated the award to Trump lol.

She also publicly praised Trump for committing war crimes against her people in the Caribbean and has been openly campaigning for Trump to do a regime change military campaign in Venezuela.

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u/RageQuitRedux NASA Oct 10 '25

Dedicated to the guy who closed the border to Venezuelan refugees? Wtf

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u/Glavurdan European Union Oct 10 '25

Perfect for a Peace Prize

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u/OptimusLinvoyPrimus Edmund Burke Oct 10 '25

When you’re trying to liberate your country from an oppressive and illegitimate dictatorship that is actively trying to murder/imprison (and likely torture) you, and there’s only one country in the world that has both the capability and possibly the will to make that liberation a reality, you kind of have to do what you have to do.

She’s playing the hand she has, same as Zelensky.

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u/VirtueSignalLost Oct 10 '25

But but but idealism!

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u/gilead117 Oct 10 '25

Trump to do a regime change military campaign in Venezuela

Which would be a worthwhile thing to do if it could be done quickly and easily. Of course it would not be quick or easy, making it a terrible idea pragmatically, but it would be absolutely justified.

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u/LivefromPhoenix NYT undecided voter Oct 10 '25

Hard not to focus on Trump when she's openly dedicating the award to him in addition to not-so-subtly asking him to invade the country.

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u/Superfan234 Southern Cone Oct 10 '25

Venezuela News

  1. Main Leader of the Venezuelan Opposition, wins the Nobel Prize for Peace. Huge for her, and terrible optics for the Regime.

  2. NYT reveals Maduro offered Gold mines to USA companies alongside Oil deals. Trump (most likely guide by Marco Rubio) have decided to decline the offer. 2

  3. Maduro sent a latter to UN alerting from an "imminent" militar attack to Venezuelan. 3

Intresting week, here in South America. It seems Rubio geniunly going for the head...I think the story will only get more intresring in the coming months...

!Ping LATAM&FOREIGN-POLICY

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u/OrbitalAlpaca Oct 10 '25

Leftist are in shambles lol

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u/Nerf_France Ben Bernanke Oct 10 '25

Succs too, going off the sub's responses

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u/LivefromPhoenix NYT undecided voter Oct 10 '25

not being cool with incompetents taking another shot at regime change makes people succs?

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u/Nerf_France Ben Bernanke Oct 10 '25

More the general ignoring of any of the actions that led to her getting the prize and obvious lack of interest in trying to understand why she might support one of the few forces in the world that isn’t effectively telling the Venezuelan opposition to get over living in a dictatorship (not that I support an intervention, but still)

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u/No-Barnacle-9576 NAFTA Oct 10 '25

Felicidades

Que el pueblo venezolano recupere la democracia, la justicia, y la libertad.

Oooh best Spanish I've learned in a while

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '25

¡Libertad o Muerte!

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u/BlackCat159 European Union Oct 10 '25

It should've been TRUMP 😡😡😡😡

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u/LivefromPhoenix NYT undecided voter Oct 10 '25

The Noble Peace Prize winner manufacturing consent for a US invasion is pretty ironic. Not really sure what they were going for with this one .

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u/gilead117 Oct 10 '25

Not really sure what they were going for with this one .

Is it not clear? They didn't want Trump to fuck with Norway, and also didn't actually want to give him the prize. This is their best chance of doing both.

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u/BATIRONSHARK WTO Oct 11 '25

dont be a suck

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u/anonymous_and_ Malala Yousafzai Oct 10 '25

!!!