(This article was written by Hermann Tertsch and appeared in El Debate. Mucho más que un Nobel)
Let nobody be surprised at the displeasure felt by all the most prominent vermin of narco-socialism and organised crime at the news that the Nobel Prize has been awarded to María Corina Machado. That the communists, Islamists and depraved terrorist sympathisers of the far left should bark like Pablo Iglesias is normal. They are watching the entire narrative of their criminal ideology collapse. More serious is the case of Pedro Sánchez’s government, in which throughout the whole of yesterday nobody dared congratulate the laureate. Lest Nicolás Maduro or Diosdado Cabello, both in a very foul mood yesterday, should lament out loud having given millions to the Socialist International in order to put Sánchez at its head. Or worse still, that in a great rage they should announce they are suspending all business with so many socialists who have grown rich.
A very uncomfortable situation for a Sánchez who has made a fool of himself in the Middle East, is totally isolated within NATO and may now be on the threshold of all the documents proving the misdeeds committed coming out in Venezuela. For Sánchez, the criminal threat posed by the massive corruption surrounding him in Spain may soon look like a joke compared with what may be building up for them beyond our borders. Pedro Sánchez and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero head a long list of friends and partners of the Venezuelan criminals of the Cartel de los Soles who are now going to go under. And it is going to be difficult for them not to share the consequences as they once shared the business.
This really is a low blow for them. The last thing they expected was this boost of legitimacy for those who are determined to win freedom for Venezuela and therefore to put an end to the criminal organisation of the Spanish government’s cronies.
The Nobel Peace Prize, that award which the European social-democratic forces believed they had so well trained, is suddenly given to MCM, a heroine who has made herself the worst enemy of the international criminal gang of Miraflores which has been buying up social democrats wherever it finds them for the past 25 years. They kidnapped Venezuela a quarter of a century ago under a swinish and cynical soldier named Hugo Chávez Frías. And since then, with his successor Nicolás Maduro and under the tutelage of the Cuban dictatorship, it has developed a State wholly given over to the exploitation of every imaginable field of transnational organised crime, always under the cover of the ideological banner of the left.
This ideological banner is what has provided the criminal organisations in Maduro’s gang with the legal, political and commercial networks needed to develop their projects of political power and criminal business. They have known how to buy, first with oil and later with cocaine and other criminal enterprises, the goodwill and obedience of politicians, academics, public and private bodies, agencies, companies and institutions, NGOs and foreign parties throughout the Americas and Europe. Through their financing of organisations of the São Paulo Forum, the Puebla Group, the Progressive International and the Socialist International, they have placed entire governments at the service of the great drug cartels.
They also made a great many friends in Scandinavia, and it is enough to recall the Nobel Peace Prize given to José Manuel Santos for imposing, against the will expressed by Colombians in a referendum, a peace plan with narco-terrorism that amounted to the disarming of democracy and the handing over to subversion of everything it had never achieved by arms with all its immense murderous brutality. And which has brought Colombia so much closer to the abyss of a narco-state like Venezuela’s. Always supported, by the way, by all the European social-democratic forces, among which the European People’s Party must of course be included. The photographs of Ursula von der Leyen with Delcy Rodríguez or with Gustavo Petro are no accidents. The EU summit with that Chavista invention CELAC is not one either. The European Union has systematically carried out agitation and propaganda for the “progressive” forces in Ibero-America. Under the Italian communist Federica Mogherini and the Spanish socialist Josep Borrell it has been one scandal after another, the massive interference of the EU in favour of the Lulas in Brazil, Boric in Chile, Petro in Colombia, and so on and so forth. As are the ideological forms of blackmail coming from Brussels.
The ideal held by this international of narco-socialism, of achieving an immense Bolivarian dictatorship as a great narco-state stretching from the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego as a great anti-imperialist and anti-Western homeland, may strike us as delirious. But there have been moments in the past 25 years when they seemed to be advancing successfully in that direction. With money, with violence and with terror they have successfully interrupted processes of democratic normality and economic and social development such as in Chile. And not a day passes in which they do not try to sabotage Javier Milei in his courageous process of well-being and development in freedom.
Although for the moment many of these criminals continue to be supported by the European Union, in Cuba they are watching their neighbour Maduro’s beard being singed, already harried by the United States fleet, by arrest warrants naming him as head of the Cartel de los Soles, and by the prize to María Corina as another nail in his coffin. And not only in his. The day that regime falls, and its members who wish to redeem themselves begin to talk, accomplices seeking advantages, and there is access to its archives, there will be an earthquake in the political classes throughout the Americas and in Europe. And most especially here in Spain there are a great many people for whom a disastrous criminal horizon will suddenly open up, well beyond, of course, their immediate political death.
For all these reasons the Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado is not only a thoroughly deserved award to this great fighter against one of the most criminal regimes in the world. To this dear friend who has done so much, from positions of infinite difficulty, to intensify cooperation with the Spanish forces that defend freedom and democracy in the Americas, which are VOX, the Madrid Forum, Disenso and previously ECR and now Patriots for Europe, the group to which Santiago Abascal has transmitted this transatlantic vocation. Now those who draw close to María Corina in Spain will be legion, including those who had been betting, some directly on the criminal regime with the infinite solvency of the narco trade, and others on a false opposition very comparable to the role of many ultra-centrist politicians in Europe.
It is also a historic milestone and one more proof of the change of political and cultural era the West has entered, one that has spread panic among those who see their model going under and which opens the doors to the hegemony of a worldview that has been marginalised, despised and persecuted for half a century. Since then, since the retreat in surrender without a battle and with the handing over of all their academic, cultural, media and even ecclesial positions by the conservative and national forces after the spirit of 1968 and the triumph of the Frankfurt School, the Nobel Peace Prize has been a faithful reflection of the “zeitgeist”, the spirit of the times dominated by social democracy, relativism and supposedly humanitarian sentimentalism. One need only recall that it was won by the North American presidents Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama, without doubt the ones who most weakened the United States and the West and who for that reason were most liked by the European left. The change of era is already here, the end of the neo-Marxist ideological delirium with all the perversions added to it over the years. The progressive bunker and the bewildered figures among its ultra-centrist allies go under electorally every week somewhere in Europe or the Americas.
So much has the situation changed that some believed the prize would be given this year to Donald Trump, who without doubt has more than enough merits, and far greater ones than Obama and Carter, and he has them not only for this year’s spectacular achievements, which also count, but already five years ago when he secured the Abraham Accords. Let nobody be angry that they have not given it to him. Because, the way things stand, it is going to be very difficult for them to deny it to him in the near future. Five years ago it was madness to think of it. But the times are changing a great deal, and for the better.
Hermann Tertsch is a Distinguished Fellow (Honorary) at the Gold Institute for International Strategy, a Washington D.C.-based foreign policy and defense think tank.
