Why María Corina Machado Says That Trump Deserves Her Nobel Peace Prize

World affairs are acquiring some curious symmetries, particularly when it comes to the United States and Venezuela. During the 2024 Presidential campaign, Donald Trump made the South American nation his favorite scapegoat to propel his anti-immigrant policies, by branding its undocumented migrants in the United States as members of a feared transnational gang, the so-called Tren de Aragua. Then, once in office, he deported hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to internment in El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison. More recently, Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon has been attacking alleged narco-boats in the Caribbean which were said to have left Venezuela with the U.S. as their ultimate destination. So far, four boats have been destroyed, resulting in the deaths of twenty-one people. Even as the Pen