María Corina Machado, the far-right Venezuelan coup leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize, vowed "massive privatization", offering to sell off $1.7 trillion of her nation's resources to US corporations
I’m glad Ben Norton included the bit about Machado’s superrich cousin going to Miami on private jet shopping trips & making fun of how poor Americans were, it was really illustrative of what the comprador elite are like since they’re the result of much sharper inequality. Mostly just really funny though
I literally doubled over laughing when they gave Machado the Peace Prize. What a fucking joke.
I’m glad Ben Norton included the bit about Machado’s superrich cousin going to Miami on private jet shopping trips & making fun of how poor Americans were, it was really illustrative of what the comprador elite are like since they’re the result of much sharper inequality. Mostly just really funny though
In a few more months, she’ll be taking the title of President off Juan Guaidó.