“Oh my god… I have no words.”
Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina Machado finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news with her directly before it was announced to the world.
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This year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado has led the struggle for democracy in the face of ever-expanding authoritarianism in Venezuela. Ms Machado studied engineering and finance, and had a short career in business. In 1992 she established the Atenea Foundation, which works to benefit street children in Caracas.
Ten years later she was one of the founders of Súmate, which promotes free and fair elections and has conducted training and election monitoring. In 2010 she was elected to the National Assembly, winning a record number of votes. The regime expelled her from office in 2014. Ms Machado leads the Vente Venezuela opposition party and in 2017 helped found the Soy Venezuela alliance, which unites pro-democracy forces in the country across political dividing lines.
In 2023 she announced her candidacy for president in the 2024 presidential election. When she was blocked from running, she supported the opposition’s alternative candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia. The opposition mobilised widely and collected systematic documentation that it was the true winner of the election. The regime declared victory and tightened its grip on power.
Ms Machado is receiving the Nobel Peace Prize first and foremost for her efforts to advance democracy in Venezuela. But democracy is also in retreat internationally. Democracy – understood as the right to freely express one’s opinion, to cast one’s vote and to be represented in elective government – is the foundation of peace both within countries and between countries.
Read more about this year’s #NobelPeacePrize laureate: https://t.co/juIj539Bh9
Por favor, nunca voten al socialismo en sus países, se los suplico, ha salido demasiado caro a millones de venezolanos el error de 1998.
Los 3.6 millones de venezolanos que votaron a Chávez condenaron a más de 30 millones a décadas de miseria, represión, dictadura y muerte.
🚨🇻🇪 Tanquetas y motos de la Guardia Nacional (GNB) se encuentra subiendo hacia el barrio San Isidro, Petare, municipio Sucre del estado Miranda. https://t.co/WGEgUxzy0C
A los más de 60 mil comanditos en todo el país, expresión genuina de la organización y activación comunitaria, y a la poderosa fuerza motorizada que fueron clave para lograr la victoria del 28 de julio:
Ustedes llevaron nuestro mensaje de cambio y redención a todos los venezolanos, a cada hogar del país. Hicieron una contribución extraordinaria para lograr nuestro triunfo.
Toda Venezuela les ofrece el mayor reconocimiento, afecto y estímulo. Hemos logrado una gran victoria y ahora vamos a consolidarla para que Edmundo González Urrutia asuma, como Dios manda, la presidencia de la República.
Les pido que se mantengan activos, que ayuden en la movilización de la gente de manera cívica y ordenada, que se protejan y protejan a otros de la represión, y que no bajen la guardia, ni caigan en provocaciones.
Para las próximas movilizaciones, tienen que estar, como siempre, en la primera línea.
If @KamalaHarris and @JoeBiden want to actually support Freedom and legitimate elections in Venezuela they should elevate the bounties to $100m each on these already wanted criminals @NicolasMaduro and @dcabellor and all the others in their cartel. Then sit back and watch the magic happen. You can even pay these out from frozen regime money already in US banks.
Les dijimos que íbamos a ganar y a cobrar; tenemos cada una de las actas y esa es la prueba irrefutable de que GANAMOS y @EdmundoGU es el nuevo presidente electo.
Así lo ratificamos hoy cívicamente en Caracas.
El Centro Carter estuvo en Venezuela este domingo 28. Concluye que el proceso presidencial no cumple con los estándares regionales e Internacionales en materia de elecciones democráticas.
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