By Hedelberto López Blanch *
With a gesture of complete submission to her idolized “emperor,” also known as the Latin American equivalent of Hitler, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado presented the Nobel Peace Prize to convicted President Donald Trump.
Machado handed him the authentic 2025 Nobel Peace Prize medal (a 196-gram gold piece, 6.6 cm in diameter) during a nearly two-hour private meeting at the White House, which included a conversation in the Oval Office and lunch. Trump celebrated this gesture of public self-humiliation with a broad smile on his social media account, Truth, calling it a “wonderful gesture of mutual respect.”
Although Corina paid enormous homage to Trump, in his brief public message, he omitted any reference to Machado’s uncertain role in seizing the presidency of Venezuela, for which he called on Washington to bomb and invade the country, as happened on January 3rd when the United States launched a treacherous attack against the South American nation that resulted in dozens of deaths and the kidnapping of the constitutional president, Nicolás Maduro Moros and his wife, Cilia Flores.
As has become customary in the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize, in the last edition in October 2025, a completely political way was sought to award the prize to María Corina, a person who in recent years has been involved in all kinds of revolts and aggressions against the legitimate government of Venezuela.
Each year the prestige of this Committee declines further, as in most cases it grants recognition to right-wing figures supported by the United States and Western Europe who fight against legitimately elected progressive governments.
A few days before the announcement, news outlets such as the Financial Times reported concerns in Norway about “potential retaliatory tariffs or other measures from President Trump” if he did not win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Following Corina’s humiliating act of presenting Trump with the prize she herself did not deserve, Norway’s leading media outlets labeled it “pathetic, unprecedented, and ridiculous.”
“It’s surreal, simply unheard of,” stated Benedicte Bull, a Latin America specialist at the University of Oslo. The leader of the Norwegian Centre Party, Trygve Slagswold Vedum, told public broadcaster NRK: “The fact that Trump accepted the medal shows that he is ‘the classic fool who has to appropriate the distinctions and work of others.'”
Meanwhile, Kirsti Bergsto, leader of the Socialist Left Party, stated: “This is above all absurd and senseless,” and Bjørnar Moxnes, leader of the Red Party, emphasized: “Now the medal is hanging in Trump’s office, and unfortunately, this is a predictable consequence of the Nobel Committee’s decision.”
Corina’s history of involvement in warfare is extensive, as she has been implicated in recent times in all the destabilizing actions against the Bolivarian Revolution. After the presidential elections of July 28, 2014, won by Maduro, she was the main protagonist of the so-called Guarimbas (violent street protests) that plunged Venezuela into a wave of violence that left more than twenty dead and 192 wounded, all Chavista supporters.
According to investigations by the Ministry of the Interior, Justice, and Peace, she was involved in the failed assassination attempt in Plaza Bolívar, which, had it gone undetected, would have had a lethal blast radius of 911 meters, with shrapnel reaching up to 1,200 meters.
Several days ago, she was also linked to the organization that planted explosives at the U.S. Embassy in Caracas in order to provoke a “false flag” operation and incite Washington to launch a direct military attack against Venezuela.
After the bombing and kidnapping of President Maduro and his wife Cilia, she showered Trump with praise despite the bloody and treacherous act.
As a consequence, history will record that: the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the woman who called for the bombing of her country, and she gave it to the man who bombed her people.
(*) Hedelberto López Blanch is a renowned Cuban journalist. He writes for the newspaper Juventud Rebelde and the weekly Opciones. He is the author of “Cuban Emigration to the United States,” “Secret Stories of Cuban Doctors in Africa,” and “Miami, Dirty Money,” among others.
SPECIAL THANKS TO THE AUTHOR: Hedelberto López Blanch
[ SOURCE: RESUMEN LATINOAMERICANO Y DEL TERCER MUNDO CUBA / EN RESUMEN ]
