October 10, 2025
The Network of Intellectuals, Artists, and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity strongly denounces and condemns the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado, which constitutes a cynical escalation within the hegemonic discourse and war action of the United States. This maneuver is not naive; it deliberately seeks to install in our collective imagination the narrative for an invasion of Venezuela, disguised as a “war for freedom.”
It is unacceptable and hypocritical for the Nobel Committee to present María Corina Machado as a “unifying figure” when her record shows the opposite: she has consistently and openly worked against the Venezuelan people. Her actions include explicitly calling for the overthrow of the legitimate governments of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro, actively supporting the criminal sanctions that are suffocating her own country, and directly sponsoring violent confrontation in the streets of Venezuela to force an unconstitutional end to the legitimately elected government.
Machado has appealed directly to Benjamin Netanyahu—architect of the annihilation of Gaza and the genocide of the Palestinian people—and has signed political agreements for him to help “liberate” (read “colonize”) Venezuela, while promising to reopen the Venezuelan embassy in Jerusalem, openly aligning herself with an apartheid state internationally seen and accused of genocide. This strategic alliance makes her an accomplice to the atrocities committed against the Palestinian people.
This pattern of behavior undoubtedly reveals fascist intentions, whose ultimate goal has been and continues to be the total undermining of Venezuela’s sovereignty, in order to hand over this land of peace, which is home to the world’s largest oil reserves, to the insatiable imperialist maelstrom of the US with impunity.
This dubious award is yet another link in a strategy of death and domination that seeks to impose on Venezuela a supposed transition to democracy (tailored to the US) through the use of force, violence, and death. This strategy flagrantly violates the inalienable right of the Venezuelan people to self-determination and seeks to turn the Caribbean into a new and bloody theater of war.
In the face of this serious and shameful maneuver, which seeks only to justify the death and destruction of an entire nation and offends rationality and dignity, the Network of Intellectuals, Artists, and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity urgently calls on the peoples of the world, on all those who genuinely believe in and defend peace and sovereignty, to raise their voices in protest in a forceful and united manner.
Let us not allow interference and war to be legitimized!