The Cuban exile community in Miami is preparing to nominate the Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The event is scheduled to take place at noon on August 16 at the American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora.
Machado will be proposed for "her brave fight in defense of democracy and human rights in Venezuela, which has made her deserving of this international distinction."
Support for the nomination will be officialized at the event titled: "Venezuela Won: Great Worldwide Protest for the Truth, Glory to the Brave People!", which will take place on Saturday, August 17 at 4:00 p.m. at Bayfront Park in Miami.
During that activity, the four institutions that support the nomination proposal of the opposition leader will be announced.
World march this Saturday
In recent hours, María Corina Machado addressed Venezuelans, both inside and outside the country, on the eve of the global protest called in over 300 cities around the world this Saturday, August 17, in support of the true outcome of the elections held on July 28, which victory was seized from Edmundo González by Nicolás Maduro.
"A great day is approaching this Saturday, August 17. We all know what we have done and what we have achieved, victory after victory. We raised a country, we managed to hold the primaries, we reached a presidential election with Edmundo against all obstacles and all arbitrariness. We won and the world now knows it," said María Corina in a video shared on X.
The protest seeks to highlight the official records that demonstrate that Edmundo González Urrutia received 67% of the votes, compared to 30% for Nicolás Maduro. The organizers have asked attendees to bring printed copies of their electoral table records "so that the world can see the strength we have and so that the regime understands that they will not stop us."
In response, chavismo has organized a counter-march in Caracas to try to limit popular support for the opposition.
However, Machado has emphasized that a new stage has begun, "which is to assert popular sovereignty and the truth in order to reach a negotiation that leads us to a democratic transition."
The opposition leader described the regime as "naked," lacking legitimacy, and resorting to violence "to try to intimidate us, demoralize us, and divide us, but it has not succeeded and will not succeed."
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) denounced this Thursday that chavismo has established "state terrorism" to contain protests, with a repression that has already claimed 24 lives and left more than 2,400 detained, of which the Penal Forum has verified at least 1,400, including 118 minors. In recent hours, two 13-year-old children have been released.
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