The winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize is Venezuelan politician Maria Corina Machado
The award goes to the person or organisation that’s done the most “for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses”
US President Donald Trump had led a public campaign to win the award, but nominations closed in January - at the start of his second term in office
FYI, Machado is a far-right plant who’s championing the sanctions and US intervention in her country and every other nation that opposes imperialism. Notwithstanding her vocal and active support for far-right parties in Europe and LatAm.
https://venezuelanvoices.org/2025/04/02/what-does-maria-corina-machados-alliance-with-the-european-and-israeli-ultra-right-imply-for-the-venezuelan-people/
https://web.archive.org/web/20240826045039/https://cpa.org.au/guardian/issue-2113/venezuelas-maria-machado-what-the-media-doesnt-say/
https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/11/venezuela-announces-probe-against-opposition-leader-over-us-sanctions-support/
Sounds about right for the institution who gave Kissinger a Peace Prize
Which is why Trump actually has a chance. If they’ll give it to Kissinger for openly being an unapologetic warmonger and war criminal, or Obama for literally nothing, why not give it to Trump?
She comes from one of the richest families in Venezuela, that owned large steel industry. The socialist government took them over.
Ah, unsurprisingly.
Oh wow, when you hover over Estonia in the list of countries represented in the first article, it’s a national broadcast article about Ruuben Kaalep, who somehow managed to get into parliament for one term.
Now I do not know many Estonian politicians closely, but about a decade ago, someone who was part of a group I was drinking with one evening, managed to invite him to join us. We promptly ditched both of them when he… spent quite a bit of time talking about how Hitler was doing the right thing. Ah, and the person who invited him? Became the next lead of the nazi youth group Kaalep used to lead before he went to parliament. I’m amazed she hasn’t gotten into parliament yet, since I remember her being dumb as a bag of rocks too, but I guess it was sexism, because I don’t recall EKRE having a lot of female parliament members usually - both the current ones are wives of prominent male party members.
Not particularly relevant perhaps, but hey, I’m still grossed out by the fact that nazis infiltrated my birthday.
THIS ^^^^^^^