Will Maduro enjoy natilla at the Miraflores Palace this Christmas?
“There will be no peace in Colombia until democracy is restored in Venezuela,” declared the great María Corina, pinpointing the connections that exist between the oppressive regime of the neighboring usurper and numerous narcoterrorist and narco-guerrilla groups operating in Colombia, killing, extorting, kidnapping, and staining our country with blood, pain, and desolation.
That’s why in Colombia, we feel that this Nobel Prize is not only for Venezuelans. It’s also for Colombians who still believe in freedom and democracy.
While the world’s democrats, starting with the president of the Nobel Committee, stood and applauded María Corina, Colombia’s foreign minister chose to criticize her, while simultaneously opening the door for Maduro’s asylum in Colombia, a country that, aside from his protectors and accomplices, rejects, despises, and condemns him.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has, at times, been poorly awarded. We know that well.
However, there are moments when the Nobel shines as an emblematic award for the greatest of humanity. This is precisely what happened this year with the immense María Corina Machado, who transitioned from being the heroine of Venezuela to becoming the heroine of the Americas and a global symbol of the fight against tyranny, despotism, corruption, and electoral theft.
María Corina has not only waged a political battle. She has confronted killers, exposed drug traffickers, and challenged the corrupt. She removed their masks.
No one in the world believes anymore that a group of Bolivarian heroes defends the legacy of the Liberator in Venezuela.
Thanks to María Corina, it is clear that what happened in Venezuela was that a gang of criminals took over the power and refuses to let it go.
From being Venezuela’s heroine, María Corina Machado has now become the heroine of the Americas and a global symbol of the fight against tyranny, despotism, corruption, and electoral theft.
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The award to María Corina has, likely without intention when it was conferred, closed the chapter of the siege against Maduro.
Adding to the world’s highest rewards for Maduro, is the aircraft carrier Gerald Ford, the naval fleet deployed in the Caribbean, the bombers flying overhead, the direct warnings from Donald Trump and Marco Rubio, and the judicial actions. The Nobel enhances María Corina’s achievement so the entire planet knows what truly occurs in Venezuela. Hence, any action against Maduro to remove him from power—whether with his consent or not—will not be judged as an act of intervention but rather as a move to liberate a people. It will be primarily viewed as an act of redemption for a country tormented and abused by a repressive and corrupt dictator.
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Maduro has deceived the naïve Joe Biden and his gullible advisors. He mocked them, tricked them, played with them, and used them.
That won’t happen again. I’m sure of it. Trump won’t be satisfied with just targeting narco-boats. He’s going after the big fish, and if there’s anything he’s demonstrated, it’s that he’s a man of action, not words… the end, I believe, is very close! Finally!
Today, I remember that about six months ago, during our public talk at the Andi assembly, I asked the esteemed Senator Bernie Moreno in Colombian if he thought Maduro would be “eating natilla” at the Miraflores Palace this Christmas. He said he didn’t think so. Neither do I. I believe that if he spends Christmas Eve there, he won’t be holding onto that chair for much longer. Hopefully so. Thus, once again, thank you, María Corina.
Juan Lozano / El Tiempo