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Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado said Saturday, January 3, the "hour of freedom" had arrived for her country after the United States seized strongman Nicolas Maduro, but was criticized by the US president, who said she "doesn't have the respect."

At a press conference, Trump scotched any expectation that Machado should emerge as Venezuela's new leader. "I think it would be very tough for her to be the leader. She doesn't have the support within or the respect within the country," Trump told a news conference. He indicated he could instead work with Maduro's vice president, Delcy Rodriguez, saying "she's essentially willing to do what we think is necessary to make Venezuela great again."

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[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 69 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

She's the Noble Peace Prize winner who dedicated her win to Trump.

[–] velindora@lemmy.cafe 41 points 5 days ago

It’s just comedy at this point. But the blood is real.

[–] bunkyprewster@startrek.website 22 points 5 days ago

But he wanted that prize for himself and he'll never let that resentment go.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Another disposable lackey.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

I thought she did it to get his attention to the matter (task failed successfully I guess).

The problem is that it’s a lot like asking the mob for protection. Yeah they might get rid of your enemy, but then they take your shit for themselves, for as long as they can.

[–] shapeofthings@piefed.ca 46 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It was up to Venezuelans to depose Maduro not to Trump to kidnap him.

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yeah, shoulda just ousted him with a normal slow-rolled, CIA-backed coup. Trump was too eager and jizzed in his pants before he could even get Venezuelans in the mood.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

She's worse than an idiot. She's a right-winger who invited foreign aggression against her own country to remove a political rival.

And she's on Trump's shit list because he's butthurt that she got the Nobel Peace Prize that he so openly coveted.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The Nobel committee is a joke after this

[–] VoteNixon2016@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's been a joke since they gave the Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger in 1973

[–] pregnantwithrage@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Holy shit, I had to look it up. At what point do you just fucking give to this award in general.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 28 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

Scorned lol

[–] sudo@programming.dev 17 points 5 days ago

Venezuelan Ahmed Chalabi promises to privatize everything for foreign "investment".

[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So reading between the lines she thought Trump was on her side but she forgot Trump actually works for Putin. Is that it? Is what is happening here?

[–] JGrffn@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Why would Putin want one of his biggest sources of oil gone? Please, the "he works for Putin" rhetoric might have been true or at least made sense during his first administration, but now? No, this is a full GOP imperialist move, with a touch of Trumpist megalomania. It's what the right-wing-led US has historically done for the better part of the last century. Tons of very powerful people in very powerful places will be getting a ton more money out of this, and Putin isn't one of them.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

LOL, when are all these people that always go down on Taco ever going to learn?