To the editor: I learn the letter to the editor from a reader blasting María Corina Machado for giving her Nobel Peace Prize to President Trump (“Letters to the Editor: María Corina Machado demeans the Nobel Prize by handing it to Trump,” Jan. 17). I suppose it’s simple to criticize her from a rich, secure metropolis like Pasadena. Machado has not had that luxurious, having needed to keep on the transfer on account of political persecution.
In her battle for her nation’s democracy, Machado realized she wanted the assistance of the USA, and to attain that assist, she knew flattery was the one technique to acquire favor from our egotistical president (ask Russian President Vladimir Putin — he is aware of that negotiating tactic effectively).
Machado solely had one bargaining instrument: her Nobel Prize. Who is aware of if it was even her thought to supply it — she might’ve been pressured to deliver it as the one all-access go for entry into the White Home. “Cringe-worthy”? How about brave and selfless?
It was her last-ditch effort for Venezuela, which sadly will most likely not accomplish a lot. However I believe it’s unfair to criticize somebody while you actually do not know of what she has endured attempting to avoid wasting her nation.
Kendall Wolf, Encino
