Posted by Raskolnikov on October 25, 2026, 7:35 pm
Seems backstabbing only gets you so far. The quote about it being dangerous to be the enemy, fatal to be the friend springs to mind. The tangerine twat is denying all knowledge of course although if she has done this in spite of opposition then she best look out.
Exiled opposition leader María Corina Machado returns to Venezuela
Nobel peace prize winner’s return after almost a year in exile is unlikely to please interim president Delcy Rodríguez
The Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has announced she has returned to Venezuela almost a year after she left the country to receive the Nobel peace prize.
“I’m here. With you,” she wrote on X on Sunday lunchtime.
Her close ally Edmundo González, who is in exile, confirmed her arrival. “Venezuela! I am thrilled to announce to you that our leader, my dear María Corina, is on Venezuelan soil,” he posted on social media.
“Today is a very important day for Venezuelans. Our sovereign voice returns with her to lead and guide this process!” he said, adding that he too would soon return.
It was not immediately clear how Machado, 59, had managed to return to Venezuela but footage on social media showed she was in Barquisimeto, the capital of Lara state, which is about 220 miles west of the capital, Caracas.
Images showed her surrounded by supporters holding mobile phones in a church called the Sanctuary of the Divine Shepherdess.
The Trump administration had reportedly opposed Machado’s return, believing her presence would complicate the cosy relationship it has struck up with the interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, since abducting her former boss, Nicolás Maduro, in January. Machado and Rodríguez are political arch-rivals.
Machado slipped out of Venezuela last December – a few weeks before Maduro’s capture – and in recent months has reportedly made more than half a dozen failed attempts to return home, including after the devastating earthquake that hit the northern coast in June.
After Maduro was seized, many had expected Donald Trump to give Machado his blessing to take power. Her movement is widely believed to have beaten Maduro in the 2024 presidential election, but he refused to hand over power.
Instead the US president embraced Rodríguez, Maduro’s vice-president, who now governs a country widely seen as a US protectorate.
Machado has repeatedly heaped praise on Trump for launching the operation to remove Maduro, and gave him her 2025 Nobel peace prize medal, which she had been awarded for her peaceful challenge to Venezuela’s authoritarian government.
Asked by reporters on Sunday about her return, Trump said: “I don’t know anything about it, but I think she’s a very nice woman. She gave me her Nobel prize, so how can I say anything else?
“I hope she’s safe. She’s a very nice woman. But we’re doing very well in Venezuela,” he said.
The corporate media are complicit in the Gaza genocide. Never forget what they did. Never forgive them for it.
LOL. Trump: "She’s a very nice woman. She gave me her Nobel prize."
Yeah, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who wanted the US to bomb her own country and was happy as Larry when they illegally kidnapped it's elected leader...that's staunchly supporting democracy, according to those fuckers at the BiBiC!
although I'm sure there are a few true believers mixed in there.
They are utterly abysmal though and there was some brief flicker of them potentially changing during the genocide in Gaza but that is clearly not going to happen.
Here's another example that was doing the rounds on twitter the other day; the (horrific) incident is from 2024. Beautifully exposed by RabbiJeff:
and here's the Cradle with an article on their heavy apartheid state bias (none of it being new to anyone here, I'm sure):
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/40679 An anonymous senior BBC broadcaster told The National on 21 October that the BBC has been “very compliant to Israel” in its coverage of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
“The BBC have navigated themselves into a position where you can’t use [the word genocide]. And I think that’s a mistake,” the anonymous source said.
The insider said the BBC has “listened to Israel very closely and reproduced and reported Israel’s defense arguments, which is not their role,” and has done so “even where it’s screamingly obvious, even to viewers, that what’s happening in Gaza is an international scandal.”
The insider said the BBC hides behind a pretense of neutrality to diminish Palestinian suffering, using the 7 October Hamas operation as a narrative counterweight to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, adding that the broadcaster’s staff are too afraid to speak out for fear of losing their jobs.
The National also spoke to media analysts who described a deep-rooted pattern of pro-Israel bias at the BBC, consistent with what watchdogs and campaign groups have documented in its reporting since October 2023.
Faisal Hanif of the Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM) cited research showing that UK media described Israeli victims in emotive terms 11 times more often than Palestinians, with a follow-up study exposing the same double standard in the BBC’s coverage of Palestinian and Israeli deaths.
Former BBC journalists told The National that their work had made them complicit in stripping Palestinians of their humanity, prompting at least one to resign, as the broadcaster capitulated to outside pressure and enforced a glaring double standard in its editorial policy.
The insider’s remarks follow a recent UN report by Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, which names the BBC as its primary example of a western media system “intrinsic to genocide.”
The report finds that the BBC obscured Israeli responsibility in 83 percent of its headlines, and that its presenters dismissed the reality of Israel’s genocide in more than 100 documented cases.
It also affirmed that the BBC erased decades of occupation and blockade by treating 7 October 2023 as the origin of the violence.
The accounts echo warnings BBC journalists have raised since the early weeks of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. In November 2023, a group of BBC staff wrote to Al Jazeera saying the corporation was distorting its Gaza coverage through omission and an uncritical acceptance of Israeli claims.
They said it reserved words like “massacre” and “atrocities” for Hamas alone while consistently humanizing Israeli victims over Palestinians.
The corporate media are complicit in the Gaza genocide. Never forget what they did. Never forgive them for it.
on October 25, 2026, 7:35 pm