Ordinarily Democrats could be falling throughout themselves to honor and reward Maria Corina Machado.
She is the courageous opposition chief difficult Venezuelan leftist dictator Nicolas Maduro. Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize over President Donald Trump.
Machado, 58, arrived in Oslo, Norway simply hours after the award ceremony every week in the past after secretly leaving Venezuela, the place she was needed and the place she was in hiding. Her daughter Ana Corina Sosa accepted the award in her absence.
Machado, a pacesetter within the opposition to Maduro, had been in hiding following Maduro’s brutal crackdown on protesters following the final contested election that Maduro, who counted the votes, “gained.”
Machado’s journey in disguise from her hideout exterior of Caracas to the island of Curacao within the Dutch Caribbean to Bangor, Maine and on to Oslo was one thing of which blockbuster novels or motion movies are made.
She was luckier than fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi who was rearrested and jailed in Iran on the similar time whereas attending a memorial ceremony.
Mohammadi was awarded the prize in 2023 for preventing for ladies’s rights within the theocratic dictatorship.
Democrat Trump haters earlier relished the very fact Machado had nosed out Trump for the award after Trump boasted about ending a collection of wars throughout the globe, together with a halt within the preventing in Gaza.
The left wing cheering for Machado got here to a halt, nonetheless, when leftists, together with girls’s teams, realized that she was not a fellow progressive within the mildew of Kamala Harris or Elizabeth Warren, however a Trump-admiring conservative Catholic and mom of three.
Had been she an American she would match properly in Trump’s Cupboard alongside Kristi Noem.
In contrast to Machado, Trump’s drawback was that he appeared to foyer publicly for the prize and anticipated to get it.
In any case, if President Barack Obama acquired it for doing nothing, then certainly Trump would get it for doing one thing.
Nevertheless it was to not be.
As a substitute, he was snubbed, which happy his critics.
However Trump being Trump, he made up for it by profitable the inaugural peace prize award by FIFA in the course of the World Cup attract Washington.
As prestigious because the FIFA award is likely to be, it’s no Nobel Prize, nor did it have the $1 million grant that goes together with the award.
However for Trump the Nobel monetary prize was solely strolling round cash anyway. He’s acquired sufficient money.
What he desires is recognition for his wonderful accomplishments in saving lives by bringing peace to distressed areas all over the world, and now for halting the prison drug exercise of the Maduro regime and releasing the Venezuelan folks from a nasty dictatorship.
However he gained’t get that recognition from the progressives. They’re so blinded by Trump hate that they’re on the verge of supporting dictator and drug supplier Maduro just because Trump opposes him.
Machado is wiser than all of them as a result of she is aware of what it means to reside in a socialist police state that’s Venezuela, and so they don’t.
Which is why she helps Trump’s aggressive actions in taking out Maduro’s drug boats and seizing a sanctioned oil tanker.
She additionally helps Trump’s technique on Venezuela, like a U.S. invasion to topple Maduro. Requested about it in Oslo, she stated, “Venezuela has already been invaded” by brokers of Russia, Iran Hamas and Hezbollah.
Whereas her invasion feedback are music to Trump’s ears it’s good she stated them after she gained the peace prize and never earlier than.
She’s prepared to switch Maduro.
Peter Lucas could be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com
