{"id":9709,"date":"2026-01-19T21:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T01:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/?p=9709"},"modified":"2026-01-19T21:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T01:46:17","slug":"maria-corina-machados-disdain-for-the-nobel-peace-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/maria-corina-machados-disdain-for-the-nobel-peace-prize-19012026\/","title":{"rendered":"Mar\u00eda Corina Machado\u2019s disdain for the Nobel Peace Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In Norway, criticism continues of Mar\u00eda Corina Machado for giving her prize to Donald Trump, which is seen as an act of disdain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Actress Liv Ullmann, upon receiving the European Film Awards\u2019 Lifetime Achievement Award, said of Mar\u00eda Corina Machado: \u201cI am Norwegian. If you are going to disdain the Nobel Prize, we should take it away from you,\u201d an idea that has already been expressed by several prominent citizens of the Nordic country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the award in hand, the Norwegian actress dedicated her acceptance speech to the incident involving the Venezuelan far-right leader who, as is well known, gifted the Nobel Peace Prize to Donald Trump in a gesture of political demagoguery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Renex\u2019s analysis, posted on his X account, is illuminating: \u201cBecause we are not dealing with a donation: we are dealing with an offering. As in ancient rites, the subject places the sacred object at the feet of power, hoping for mercy, favor, or at least a glance that is not one of contempt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Analyzing the symbolic act that both far-right leaders attempted to create, Renex adds: \u201cThe problem is that the chosen altar does not honor sacrifices: it consumes them. The Nobel Prize, that award that purports to symbolize the moral conscience of humanity, is\u2014to Machado\u2019s misfortune\u2014non-transferable. It does not belong to marble or metal, but to the historical act that justified it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And he concludes by describing Machado\u2019s action: \u201cHanding over the medal doesn\u2019t make Trump a Nobel laureate; it makes the person handing it over something much worse: someone willing to empty their own political biography of meaning just to brush against the Bastille of imperial power.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Colonial Submission<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chilean analyst Renex defines the gesture as colonial submission: \u201cThere is something profoundly colonial in this scene. Not in the geographical sense, but in the mental one. The deep-seated conviction that a country\u2019s destiny is decided not by the maturation of its own democracy, but by the whims of a foreign leader.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And he warns of the method: \u201cThat the presidency of Venezuela is obtained not through popular conviction, but through the indulgence of others. That sovereignty can be exchanged for a photo, a smile, or a handshake. Machado isn\u2019t just handing over a medal. She\u2019s handing over a cause. She\u2019s handing over the fiction of moral autonomy that every democratic opposition needs to avoid becoming a caricature.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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No one was awarded the prize<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Criticism of Machado and Trump\u2019s actions isn\u2019t limited to Norway; The New York Times also fires its barbs in an article titled: \u201cNeither Trump nor Machado got what they wanted in the Nobel medal swap.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to columnist David Sanger, \u201cThe US president has Mar\u00eda Corina Machado\u2019s medal, but he is not recognized as a laureate of the prize. Machado did not get Trump\u2019s backing to become president of Venezuela.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Get a grip, ma\u2019am<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Nobel Committee in Oslo, which awards the Nobel Peace Prize, stated on Friday that the award is \u201cinseparable\u201d from the recipient, following Venezuelan opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado\u2019s handover of her medal to US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mockery hasn\u2019t stopped flooding social media, both in its criticism of Mar\u00eda Corina Machado and Donald Trump.
As the Norwegian Nobel Committee states: \u201cOnce a Nobel Prize is announced, it cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others. The decision is final and lasts forever.\u201d A medal can change ownership, but the title of a Nobel Peace Prize cannot. Therefore, if Machado presented the medal as if it were the prize, she committed intellectual fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IMAGE CREDIT: Venezuelan opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado ( Photo: EFE )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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