The Nobel Peace Prize means so much to Maria Corina Machado however, clearly, giving it away means much more.
If giving Donald Trump an 18-carat medal is the price of regime change in Venezuela, it is a value she is ready to pay.
Stolen valour? She cares much less.
The larger prize is democracy in her homeland or, as she coined it, freedom over tyranny.
Maria Corina Machado presents Donald Trump along with her Nobel Peace Prize medal
She advised me that is how she framed it for the US president on her go to to Washington DC, in her effort to engineer change in Venezuela.
She sees Donald Trump as a method to that finish, even when he does not see her in his plans.
Because the pair had lunch within the White Home, elsewhere within the constructing Trump’s press secretary reaffirmed his reluctance to embrace her as a determine to take the nation ahead.
Machado was on the appeal offensive, clearly. Her issue is within the attraction of rump dictatorship post-Maduro.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado. Pic: AP
A “terrific lady” is how Trump described Delcy Rodriguez, the Maduro deputy now performing up.
His calculation is that the prevailing political infrastructure in Venezuela aids his entry to grease reserves.
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To shake the tree might stir an uncertainty to compromise his ambitions, not least by scary the nation’s navy and safety providers.
Machado must belief within the Trump administration’s discuss of “transition” in Venezuela, even when they have not given a time frame for it. She must hope the president will interact within the enterprise of reform past the enterprise of oil and that he’ll assist to ship free and honest elections.
Venezuelan opposition chief Maria Corina Machado. Pic: Reuters
Machado can current a robust case, not least by citing her motion’s election victory final 12 months, solely to have it annulled by Nicolas Maduro.
Her attraction was strengthened by the scenes in Washington DC. Following a gathering with Senators on Capitol Hill, she was mobbed by Venezuelan exiles who waved flags and chanted her title. Machado appeared, each inch, the chief that Donald Trump does not suppose she is – on attraction and command of her viewers.
It was a profitable journey so far as it went. If she will be able to take it the space, she deserves a medal.
