What exactly is wrong with the 58 year-old María Corina Machado, who ran in absentia (i.e., by proxy) against Nicholas Maduro in a 2024 president election and won by a landslide….what is wrong with her assuming the presidency in Maduro’s absence?
She’s obviously a smart, canny, enterprising, pugnacious, rough-and-tumble politician, and the country gave her a decisive win last year. Plus she won the Nobel Peace Prize last October.
So what’s the problem? I’ll tell you what the problem is. Trump is the problem. Machado “is a very nice lady but she doesn’t have the respect,” he’s reportedly said. Translation: She’s too decent, too humanist, too progressive, and not corrupt enough in terms of oil revenues.
Wiki excerpt: “The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised Machado as ‘one of the most extraordinary examples of civilian courage in Latin America in recent times’.
“At the time of the prize’s announcement, Machado was in hiding inside Venezuela, fearing repression from the government of Nicolás Maduro. She secretly escaped the country to reach Oslo with the help of international allies, but vowed to return to Venezuela to continue opposing the Maduro regime.”