The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy"
So pathetic. I have relatives in Latin America (won’t be more specific for op sec reasons), but I can’t even say anything because they’ll say “you don’t know, you grew up in the US, you don’t know how bad communism has been in South America” (and they’ll call evens liberals communists). It’s hard to fight back against that because there’s nothing I can say to prove right-wing candidates have done way more damage, I can’t reference history, news, anything.
I’ve also seen that same argument used by people in Eastern Europe actually to say you don’t know how bad communism was there, so all your statistics and facts and figures mean nothing, you weren’t from there. Therefore, everything to the left is bad, and no further words can be exchanged.
So pathetic. I have relatives in Latin America (won’t be more specific for op sec reasons), but I can’t even say anything because they’ll say “you don’t know, you grew up in the US, you don’t know how bad communism has been in South America” (and they’ll call evens liberals communists). It’s hard to fight back against that because there’s nothing I can say to prove right-wing candidates have done way more damage, I can’t reference history, news, anything.
I’ve also seen that same argument used by people in Eastern Europe actually to say you don’t know how bad communism was there, so all your statistics and facts and figures mean nothing, you weren’t from there. Therefore, everything to the left is bad, and no further words can be exchanged.