Maria Corina: The new "queen of the drum section" for the Nobel Peace Prize Academics.

Apparently, the selection of the Nobel Peace Prize has begun to follow the same criteria as the selection of the samba school queens in Rio de Janeiro. Both those who can't samba and those who don't know how to respect democracy – as in the case of Maria Corina Machado, a coup plotter who tried to seize the presidency of Venezuela under the sponsorship of US imperialism – are now receiving awards around the world. The new face of the award is so obscure that even Donald Trump has considered himself a candidate. Who knows, maybe even Benjamin Netanyahu will be nominated in the next edition, when the prize would be renamed the "Nobel Peace Prize".

Expressing shock after receiving the news that she had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the new "queen of the drums" of the Norwegian Committee was honored "for her persistent efforts in favor of the peaceful restoration of democracy and human rights in Venezuela," according to the organizing committee. A somewhat contradictory description, when we are talking about a woman who has always allied herself with the war imposed against her own country, even defending a US military intervention on Venezuelan soil. If you no longer need to know how to samba to be a queen of the drums in the Brazilian carnival, you also no longer need to defend peace to win the Nobel Prize.

The official text of the award also states that "Maria Corina Machado keeps the flame of democracy burning amidst growing darkness," an ode to dystopia when we see the award winner dedicating the prize to Donald Trump, the king of fascist darkness who insists on keeping the flame of any democracy that does not submit to his imperialist domination extinguished. Let us also add the fact that Corina was nominated for the award by Marco Rubio, then US Secretary of State, back in 2024, before he took office. It is intellectually unacceptable to admit that Maria Corina joins Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela in the hall of humanity's pacifists.

While Barack Obama, the man who authorized the return of US troops to Iraq and bombings in Syria, is also in this group – the European Union, with its economic imbalance between member countries, which generates inequality, unemployment, and poverty in some regions of the continent, and the archaic UN, an institution whose function is to establish peace between countries but never manages to fulfill its mission. As our great journalist José Reinaldo Carvalho aptly wrote in his column: “The Nobel Peace Prize awarded to María Corina Machado is a call for a coup and aggression against democracy and peace in Venezuela.” I would say that not only Venezuela had its peace attacked by such an award, but all the countries in the world that defend the democratic rule of law.

When traitors to the nation begin to be seen as peacemakers, we realize that the inversion of values ​​has always been a political and systemic project. Let's be vigilant, because Eduardo Bolsonaro could win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2026 and become the Master of Ceremonies of the GRES Unidos do Golpismo Mundial (United of World Coup-mongering). It's even possible that Marco Rubio, an enthusiast and supporter of his coup-mongering zeal, and his errand boy with Donald Trump, has already submitted his name to the organizing committee. Just as a matter of curiosity, it's worth remembering that the State of Israel has accumulated 13 Nobel Peace Prizes, among them the controversial former Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who also liked to establish peace by promoting wars. Which characterizes a true samba of crazy genociders in that region. I conclude by paraphrasing the great Malcolm X: If you're not careful, the Nobel Peace Prize will make you hate the oppressed and love the oppressors.