“Peace is war.” George Orwell
Guarimba is a derogatory name in Venezuela for a person who participates in street riots and pogroms.
On October 10, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize was announced. This person turned out to be Maria Corina Machado, an oppositionist from Venezuela, who called on the United States to impose sanctions against her native country and even use armed force against her government and people. Although, in fact, there were more worthy and politically neutral candidates, this choice is not surprising. A number of nominations for this once prestigious award have become increasingly politically motivated in recent years, from the perspective of the collective West, of course.
However the Prize has previously been awarded to people who should have been tried rather than rewarded – to say the least – Henry Kissinger (1973), who was partly responsible for the Vietnam War and other crimes; US President Barack Obama (2009), who continued the occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq; Aung San Suu Kyi (2012), who was silent about the situation of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, opposed the military government (justice still prevailed against her after accusations of corruption and other crimes, in December 2022 she received a total sentence of 33 years in prison).
Now it has been “earned” by a petty oppositionist who fulfills the political will of the United States – guarimba from bourgeois circles, who does not care about her own people.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has already spoken out about the award committee’s decision, laconically noting that “there have been cases when the committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to people who have done nothing for peace. In my view, these decisions have done enormous damage to the prestige of this prize.”
Obviously, the Nobel Committee’s collusion has a certain meaning. By trying to portray Maria Corina Machado as a fighter for peace, the legitimate government of Venezuela with its constitutional president Nicolas Maduro is being demonized. Although the main antagonist nowadays is the United States, led by Donald Trump (who personally did not like this decision, since he himself claimed to be a peacemaker), the Nobel sect in a way legitimizes international opinion – if Machado is “fighting for peace,” then Maduro is a bad guy, and the efforts of Washington, as well as all of its toadies to change the regime in Venezuela are quite commendable and deserve support.
This perverse logic is supported by the globalist media, but not by the global majority. Given that Venezuela has good relations with China, India, Russia, Iran, North Korea, as well as a large number of countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America (with the exception of obvious U.S. satellites at the moment), the Nobel Peace Prize, although it remains a well-known and well-promoted brand, is gradually being marginalized and losing its prestige.
Meanwhile, national mobilization continues in Venezuela against possible aggression and invasion by the Yankees. There are gathering points for reservists of the national militia throughout the country and military exercises are taking place – “Operation Luisa Cáceres de Arismendi” off the coast of Nueva Esparta, “Operation Independence 200” in the states of Zulia, Falcon and Aragua. The armed forces have been put on full alert.
Against this backdrop, a couple of days ago, Nicolas Maduro announced the signing of a new strategic cooperation agreement with Russia, which should take relations between the two countries to a new level, including military-technical cooperation.
It should also be noted that last weeks, two high-level international events were held in Caracas, organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela, which were attended by delegations from Russia. The forum “Colonialism, Neocolonialism and the Territorial Plunder of Western Imperialism” was held on October 2 and 3 in the historic Casa Amarilla building. On the first day, in addition to speakers from different countries, Alexander Shchetinin, head of Russia’s Foreign Ministry’s Latin America department, made a lengthy presentation, and read out an address from Dmitry Medvedev, chairman of Russia’s United Russia party. And on the second day, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil, Vice President Delcy Rodriguez and President Nicolas Maduro attended the event.
The country’s leader, as usual, delivered an inflammatory hour-long speech, where he touched upon various issues.
Referring to the drug cartels issue, which is being spined up by the United States, Maduro noted that “Chavez said this decades ago that they would eventually say that I am a drug dealer and they would come right after me, and any action against drug traffickers pays off… They bomb boats and don’t hide from the mass murders they commit. In the image and likeness of Netanyahu and the Zionist state, they rejoice and confess their crimes.”
The President added that “we live in darker times than in the 1940s and the years of the First World War, because even the Nazis were hiding in Auschwitz, and it was the Red Army that had to discover in the 1945 that there were concentration camps there. Now, genocides are happening live on air, publicly, widely known, and in the mass media.”
The President also mentioned that the United States was creating parallel governments in Venezuela, a parallel president, a parallel Supreme Court, a parallel PDVSA (Venezuelan state oil company), a parallel Telesur and that “in a symbolic war they are trying to create a parallel Venezuela that would exist in Miami, Bogota and Madrid with a handful of migrants whom they themselves forced to leave.”..
“Now 1,200 missiles are aimed directly at the Venezuelan people. Eight destroyers are aimed at the Venezuelan people. They use Puerto Rico as one of the wounds of our America and the Caribbean as a military base, from where they even conduct military invasion tests…“
In general, the speech was devoted to the aggressive actions of the United States and criticism of neo-imperialism, and was met with a standing ovation.
On October 4, a colloquium on “Latin America and the Caribbean in the face of North American imperialism” was held in the same building, which was a logical continuation of the previous two days, but had a more pressing agenda due to the US military presence in the region and deliberate escalation, not only against Venezuela, but also Brazil, Cuba, Nicaragua and several other countries in the region.
And on October 10, Venezuela hosted the World Congress in Defense of Mother Earth, which was attended by representatives of more than five thousand communes and delegates from 63 countries. Hugo Chavez began to actively support the theme of Indigenism and a decent life for traditional peoples, and Maduro continues this line by introducing appropriate government programs and implementing international initiatives. Unlike the hypocritical rhetoric of human rights in the United States, this is a true direct democracy. This is also one of the reasons why Washington wants to carry out a coup in Venezuela – they don’t want to see an attractive image of other political systems, be it the Chinese model, Russian sovereignty and autarky, the Iranian Shiite theocratic project or Bolivarian socialism in Venezuela.
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