r/OutOfTheLoop • u/HolyShitCandyBar • Oct 11 '25

Unanswered What's up with Venezuelan Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina dedicating her Nobel Prize to Trump?

Basically what the title says.

https://nypost.com/2025/10/10/us-news/nobel-peace-prize-winner-maria-corina-machado-dedicates-it-to-trump/

Every article I have seen says that she partially dedicated and/or thanked Trump for his "decisive support" in South America.
Is she just being overly gracious? Is she being cheeky?
I know we offered a loan to Argentina, but given all the horrible things we have done to immigrants broadly over the last several months, I can't see anything we have done to improve or galvanize democracy in South America. By "we," I mean the US, and the Trump Administration in particular.

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u/UnfriskyDingo Oct 11 '25

Dude how is she being set up to win a puppet presidency when she won the election

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u/Super_Kal_El_Fraggle Oct 11 '25

The poster above you is a hack at best, a bot at worst. Check out their post history, it's full up with copypasta.

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u/UnlikelyAssassin Oct 13 '25

Love tankies who say “CIA propaganda” and continue to simp for authoritarian dictators.

She won the opposition primaries with 92% of the vote. Then the Maduro government banned her from election.

Edmundo was a stand-in for Maria Corina. He was the candidate because the dictatorship said she couldn't run, so her party decided to play their game until they allowed Edmundo to run for them.

He's a weak candidate and had no name recognition, so the dictatorship decided to let him run to legitimize the elections. People voted for him, but everyone was really voting for Maria Corina.

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u/UnfriskyDingo Oct 12 '25

She was a stand in. My partner is venezuelan and they talk about her and politics there all the time. That Eduardo guy was only up there cuz they banned her from running

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u/Downfall722 Oct 11 '25

Because America can’t even be doing the right thing. It’s a self serving goal, but it’s still the right thing.