By: Marea Socialista
The Nobel Prize that Donald Trump, Netanyahu’s accomplice in Gaza, aspired to win, has finally been given to María Corina Machado. Three good friends.
The moral degradation and political manipulation of the Nobel Prize is scandalous. It went from being awarded to people like Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, a true fighter against the last Argentine military dictatorship, or to Nelson Mandela, fighter against apartheid in South Africa, to being awarded to a war-monger like former imperialist president Barak Obama, and now to a person like MCM, who has requested the United States and Trump to militarily invade Venezuela.
MCM has been advocating for positions that are not respectful of “peace”. There’s no need to explain what it means to request and endorse US military harassment of Venezuela. Besides, she also supports Israel and Netanyahu, executioner of the people of Gaza, and even asked him to help her overthrow Maduro. Asking a war criminal!
When Trump began to apply his scheme of criminalization, deportation and imprisonment of Venezuelan migrants, she expressed her consent. And now that Trump is imposing his aerial naval siege and is dedicated to sinking boats carrying Venezuelans, without explanations or evidence, outside of all international legislation, MCM supports these actions as well.
These are just some examples to show that María Corina has nothing to do with peace and is an instrument at the service of the most aggressive foreign power. We haven’t even mentioned her history of coup attempts, when Venezuela had a constitutional government, democratically elected, in 2002, and other subsequent attempts.
There’s no doubt, the Nobel Prize is a political operation to favor a right-wing opposition that serves the interests of an imperialist country. Why didn’t they give the Nobel to the Flotilla that tried to break Israel’s blockade of humanitarian aid in Gaza?
MCM does not care about the cost to the Venezuelan population of a possible US military invasion. When the U.S. did so in Panama to remove its former ally Noriega, it destroyed entire neighborhoods, killing hundreds or perhaps thousands of its inhabitants.
Now, with the endorsement of MCM and Edmundo Gonzalez, the “president” recognized by Trump, boats carrying Venezuelans were sunk, without proof of their alleged links with drug trafficking, nor due process, application of law nor human rights. The U.S. presents itself as the “armed authority” that governs the territorial sea borders of sovereign countries, however, it does not send its ships to control drug trafficking on its own coasts. It blames other countries for its own consumption and uses drug trafficking as an excuse to justify actions that bypass all international treaties and conventions.
Venezuelans are certainly fed up with Maduro’s government and the “lumpen bourgeoisie” PSUV, we need to develop our capacity to fight to put an end to this de facto government and this starvation regime. But that won’t be solved by asking the US government and army to enter Venezuela. The same country that after invading Afghanistan, made it worse, paving the way for the Taliban to crush all rights, especially those of women, who are prohibited from going to school, going out alone or working. The United States invaded and made war on Iraq, with the excuse of the alleged existence of weapons of mass destruction, which turned out to be false and allowed them to sow death and destruction in that country (it’s estimated that more than half a million people died, some sources calculate even more). The United States has been involved in Haiti several times and has contributed to worsening the situation of its people, plunged into chaos. They plunder resources, violently and for their own convenience, not that of the invaded country; they want to govern others and annul the sovereignty and independence of nations, in the name of a “democracy” and Human Rights that they do not comply with at all.
There are many historical examples; but María Corina wants the US to enter Venezuela either way and offers to give them whatever they ask so that they include her. Of course they first state that they do it to “restore democracy” or to guarantee a “transition”. However, they end up doing what history has already shown us time and time again.
Maduro has also surrendered our country to foreign capitalist interests. Despite of his pseudo-nationalist standing, to the detriment of the workers and the Venezuelan people, Maduro offers the Venezuelan working class as free labor force, with “zero” salary (less than 1 dollar per month) for the benefit of businessmen and transnational corporations.
But the US government does not like the business Maduro carries out with China and Russia, which are competitors on a global geopolitical scale, and prefers a government over which it has greater control. However, while US ships and airplanes carry out armed attacks near our coasts, US transnational Chevron extracts more oil than the embezzled and ruined PDVSA, with a US license.
MCM has the approval of the US government, and gringos do not trust Maduro’s alliances and links. They prefer to return economic and political management to their pro-imperialist allies of the traditional Venezuelan bourgeoisie, displaced by the current authoritarian bureaucracy.
María Corina Machado, who has the support of the main business sectors, has not focused her struggle on enforcing wages (which according to the Constitution should cover the cost of the basic food basket, Art. 91). She is an accomplice of Maduro’s anti-worker policies, since they serve the capitalist class she represents. Keeping the “zero wage” in Venezuela is equivalent to a hunger war against our people; a war in which she sides with the exploiters.
For these reasons, among many others, we reject the awarding of the Nobel Prize to María Corina Machado. We reaffirm that the liberation of the Venezuelan people and the working class cannot come from her nor from Trump’s administration. Both only pursue their own ends.
Our liberation has to be the work of our own organization, consciousness, resistance, workers’ and popular mobilization, against the anti-worker and authoritarian government of Nicolás Maduro, and against the “insolent plant” of imperialism, which with its political operators intends to trample on us by taking the place of those who govern today.
Neither war-mongering and genocidal imperialism nor the parties of the exploiting class are the solution for our people. It is not a semi-colonizing intervention by the U.S. that will solve our problems. We insist on class political independence of the working people and on the need for us to create our own tools of struggle to achieve liberating change, without invaders, without exploiters, without the nouveau riche who, together with Maduro, pose as “socialists”, but who are just another kind of right wing and another face of capitalism in Venezuela. We repeat then: Neither Maduro, nor María Corina, nor Trump and the gringos nor any other imperialist domination, including that of China or Russia. No bureaucracy, no capital! The accounts with Maduro are settled by the people. No to gringo interventionism against Venezuela!
