okay.
As a Venezuelan American, I got some shit to say.
My family, my parents, my sister, my extended family, all lost everything.
Their work, their savings, their investments, gone.
Wiped out by a narco dictatorship that has held Venezuela in a death grip for over 25 years.
And what happened to my family has happened to millions and yes, millions.
The Venezuela Exodus is the second largest displacement crisis on Earth after Syria.
This is not just a tragedy.
It is one of the great humanitarian disasters of our time.
But the suffering doesn’t end there.
This regime has jailed hundreds of political prisoners.
Thousands have been murdered simply for speaking out.
More than a third of the population has fled one third.
Not for better opportunities or for the American dream but to survive
to live because staying often means death and while the world may see Venezuela as a collapsed state what it is in reality is an occupied one our
territory our natural resources and our institutions have been overrun by hostile foreign powers
Iranian militias Chinese corporations Russian intelligence all exploiting
our country with impunity.
Venezuela is no longer just a local crisis.
It is now a geopolitical threat that endangers the entire Western Hemisphere.
It has become a launch pad for an authoritarian expansion in the Americas.
And in the midst of all this, one woman has dared to lead the charge for freedom.
Maria Corina Machado, In 20 twenty-four against every odd she led a peaceful
democratic uprising that won the election.
Her team smuggled physical voting receipts out of the country.
Hard proof of victory that the regime tried to bury.
Her courage has lit a fire in the hearts of millions of Venezuelans
desperate to believe that change is still possible.
But now some have questioned her decision to dedicate her noble prize to
Donald Trump.
Okay.
I get that.
But here’s the truth.
It was a brilliant strategic move in the global chess board of politics.
Maria Corina is no fool.
She knows exactly the kind of man Trump is.
She knows how much he campaigned for it.
Loudly and relentlessly to win that very same prize.
She knows how symbolic and personal
recognition is to him.
And precisely because of that she understood that this gesture might be the
thing that keeps his attention focused on Venezuela at a time when US present and pressure in the Caribbean is rising.
She didn’t dedicate that award to flatter him.
She did it to protect and preserve the one kind of power that could help shift the course of history.
Because for her this isn’t about pride.
It’s not about optics.
It’s about freedom.
And let’s be very clear.
Maria Corina is not asking for the US to invade Venezuela.
She’s not campaigning for war.
Venezuela is already invaded.
It is held hostage by a narco state.
Overrun by foreign agents and enemies of democracy.
Russia Iranians, Chinese all operating freely weaponizing our land and resources to expand their influence across Latin America.
What Mail Corina is calling for what millions of Venezuelans are praying for
is the support of the only military on earth capable of countering that threat and helping to free our people. This is not imperialism.
This is liberation.
She’s not playing partisan games.
She’s playing for
Venezuela’s life.
Because this isn’t theoretical.
This isn’t academic.
This is life or death.
So yes it is time to honour her bravery.
But more importantly it is time for the world especially the free world to recognize what’s at stake The fight for Venezuela is a fight for freedom,
for democracy, and for the stability of an entire continent.
If we truly care about liberty, human dignity and peace in the Americas, then Venezuela’s fight must matter to all of us.
Que viva Venezuela, que viva Maria Corina Machao.