See I truly respect President Boric from Chile, it’s one of the few progressive leaders from the region that has been outspoken about the Maduro regime and calling it what it is: a dictatorship. Unlike other leaders of the region who could be doing way more.

It’s pretty understandable for Mrs. Corina to take whatever support she gets internationally.

Including from a certain genocidal regime in the middle east.

This award isnt helping arrest the collapse of the west's moral authority.

Probably not, but it also sheds some light on left leaning democracies that are too soft with the Maduro regime just because they share some ideology.

That’s like saying Volodymyr Zelenskyy supports Trump. Foreign politicians operate outside of U.S. domestic politics - they don’t get to choose other countries’ leaders. Their job is to use diplomacy to navigate international politics in whatever shape those politics happen to be in.

Exactly. People talk as if she’s voting for the guy.

Not blanket support, only in relation to Venezuela. Which isn't hard. Even for the orangutan...

Fuck. I should have qualified the above with "Not necessarily blanket support".

A little further research and she sounds like Mrs orangutan.

Yeah, I'm wondering if the Nobel Peace prize has anything to do with peace for people, or for her neoliberalism stance of protection of the free market that would usher peace for the business interests of oil companies [0].

I must confess I am no Venezuelan political expert, and it always gives me pause whether the economic siege that has been laid against Venezuela with the sanctions is about democracy, or about access to unrestricted markets (a la United Fruit Company — now Chiquita — and Standard Fruit Company — now Dole plc).

[0]: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKU-8MCO10P/

The problem in South America is that both versions are true. The outside exploitation pressures are extremely strong, so any vaguely socialist government succumbs to the temptation to squash the outside agitators .. and any local opposition who actually have a valid point or real anti-corruption objections. Running a moderate social democrat centrist country in that situation is not stable, instead you get pendulum swings from left to right and back again, with significant human cost along the way.

(exception maybe Costa Rica?)

To be clear, Venezuela is long past the "popular socialism" phase and decayed into the "strongman holding on" phase.

There is also a substantial amount of mostly unexploited rare earth elements like Coltan.

Let's see what Trump has to say about her...

I'm guessing he will take credit for her getting the prize.

She has to support anybody who doesn't side with Maduro. If Trump starts "admiring" or "falling in love with" or something new, she would backtrack.

It's because he is the current president of the US and US support it's key for the liberation of Venezuela, she also supported Biden and Kamala Harris, have Kamala Harris won she would have "supported" her. And it's not like she supports Trump, she is not on favor of his policies but she knows his support it's necessary.

She said her favorite politician was Thatcher, so seems like a right-wing liberal.

She supports the sanctions against Venezuela. I wonder what her views are on US-backed military regime-change and blowing-up random Venezuelan boats.

She has explicitly stated she is in favor of those acts of violence against her country.

I'm Venezuelan and I don't see those acts as against my country, we hate our current government, at this point after 20 years of the same guys ruining our country we are desperate, and military intervention might be the only solution, because they hold all the power and weapons, and don't care that 80%+ of the population are against them. Although most of us hold the opinion that solving the problem by our own hands would be the best option, it seems like it might not be possible like what happened in 2014, and last year and many others. Military intervention might be the only option left that we have.