Video Venezuela's ambassador to the UN ironized the Peace Prize received by Maria Machado: “It is worth another Nobel”

The Venezuela's ambassador to the UN ironized the Nobel Peace Prize granted on Friday Maria Corina Machado, saying that the politician who opposes the Maduro regime had to receive the Nobel for Physics, according to AFP.

“I do not know what is the reaction of my government, but I will tell you what is mine,” said Samuel Moncada in New York, where is the UN headquarters

“My reaction is that I was really hoping to win the Nobel Prize for Physics, because it has the same qualifications for the Nobel Prize for Physics as for the Nobel Peace Prize. Maybe next year it will win the Nobel Prize for Physics,” he said.

🇻🇪 Ambassador Moncada Jokes That Had Hoped That María Corina Machado Would Be Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics “Because She Has the Same Credentials for Nobel in Physics Than for the Peace Nobel” pic.twitter.com/b9zt5ij8yy

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Previously, Moncada had made in a meeting in the United Nations, and statements on the increasing tensions between the United States and Venezuela.

He stated that, based on the consolidation of US military forces in the region and the “belligerent actions and rhetoric of Washington, his country” faces a situation in which it is rational to anticipate that, in the very short term, an armed attack will be committed against Venezuela. “

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Friday to the Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who is forced to live hidden in her own country.

Entered in politics in the early 2000s, pitying for a referendum against Hugo Chavez, she made the fall of the chavist regime.

The mother of three children, she was prevented, despite her popularity, to run for the presidential elections of 2024, where the current president Nicolas Maduro, Hugo Chavez's political heir, was declared a winner despite the opposition protests.

Machado dedicated the award to the Venezuelan people and Trump, on Friday, whose support said that she counts in front of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.