Protest against Maria Corina Machado Nobel award

Protest against Maria Corina Machado Nobel award
Reuters

A group of demonstrators gathered outside the Norwegian Nobel Institute to protest the awarding of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

Participants carried banners reading “Viva Cuba, Viva Venezuela / Imperialism out of Latin America / Revolutionary Communist group rock around the blockade” and “US hands off Latin-Amerika.”

Lina Alvarez Reyes, information adviser for the Norwegian Solidarity Committee for Latin America, said the protest was organised in collaboration with a broad alliance of Norwegian peace and solidarity organisations. She criticised the prize winner for not distancing herself from recent interventions and attacks in the Caribbean, arguing that this contravened Alfred Nobel’s intentions.

Protesters marched in front of the institute, chanting slogans including “Hands off Venezuela.”

Kristine Mollo-Christensen, head of Stop NATO, one of the groups participating in the demonstration, said the protest was against awarding the prize to Maria Corina Machado, claiming she had supported U.S. actions outside Venezuela and expressed a positive stance towards intervention in her own country.

The demonstration remained peaceful, with participants filming and documenting the event as they marched past the institute.

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