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cerealkiller [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish ·
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Maria Machado, Nobel Peace Prize winner fractures spine in daring escape from Venezuela

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Maria Machado, Nobel Peace Prize winner fractures spine in daring escape from Venezuela

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Nobel Peace Prize winner fractures spine in daring escape from Venezuela
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Venezuelan opposition leader and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, Maria Corina Machado, has reportedly suffered a fractured vertebra after escaping her home country on a fishing boat
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  • BobDole [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    Oh, I didn’t know comparators had spines

  • jack [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    she’s lucky the US didn’t missile strike her fishing boat

    • FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      I’m sure it was a fine “fishing” boat

    • MarmiteLover123 [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
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      The whole thing was co-ordinated with the US and some private military contractor type VIP extraction group, WSJ wrote up a good overview and did some good journalism for once. Don’t have the link now, but it shouldn’t be difficult to find.

  • segfault11 [she/her, any]@hexbear.net
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    that’s what she gets for trying to dethrone the king guaido

    • LeninWeave [none/use name, any]@hexbear.net
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      Oh my god, here comes Juan Guaido with a steel chair!

      • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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        Chair-man Guaido. It’s not a political office, that’s just his wrestling persona. Man always has his chair and isn’t afraid to use it! If you can’t defeat the chair, join it.

        https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/vd64fd/angry_venezuelans_throw_juan_guaidó_out_of_a/

        • HexReplyBot [none/use name]@hexbear.netB
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  • carpoftruth [any, any]@hexbear.netM
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    Is this fake news? It sounds like an onion headline

    well i’ll be damned https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/nobel-laureate-machado-injured-she-fled-venezuela-spokesperson-says-2025-12-15/

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      The current theory is that the Norway government told the Nobel committee to ask her to not come to the ceremony since they don’t want to deal with threats or protests, so to save face she now had an “accident” and can’t assist

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      I thought it sounds extremely far-fetched, and who could possibly believe any of this?

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        i mean she is pushing 60 likely never done any exercise so it’s very plausible she can get a major injury from just slipping. tho media is framing it as if she had endured an epic escape and barely got away lmao.

        • MarmiteLover123 [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
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          Spinal compression is also a very real possibility. 50+km on a skiff through the open ocean, big chance you can hit some waves at some point. After cresting over a wave, boat slams back down onto the ocean hard, spinal compression = minor fracture.

      • goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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        I’m only amazed she was even in the country

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          Was there actually proof that she was and she didn’t leave longer ago than they’re claiming?

          • SnakeEyes [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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            No proof in fact the only places she has been seen outside of her apartment has been during her “vacations”

            • LeninWeave [none/use name, any]@hexbear.net
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              Average “opposition” “leader”.

      • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        People who couldn’t point to Venezuela on a map and didn’t know it even existed before the US started to manufacture consent for their current war.

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    Lmfao eat shit you gusano loser

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    maduro-coffee

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    What can’t she just get on a plane? The fuck?

    • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      she could literally drive to and cross the border into Colombia or Brazil on foot. Tons of people who are way poorer and less connected than she is do it every day.

    • la_tasalana_intissari_mata [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      fell off the jets staircase

      • Commie_Chameleon [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        stairs

    • FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      Not thrilling enough

    • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
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      The headline does some major lifting, she literally just went to Curazao which is 50km away from the coast of Venezuela and then rode a private plane to Norway.

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    Damn I’m shocked she has a spine all things considered

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    “Machado told the newspaper that she attempted to travel to Norway to get her prize by utilizing a wig and a disguise. She did not elaborate any further.” lol

    • DasRav [any, any]@hexbear.net
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      That must have been one heavy wig. Did she disguise herself as Marge Simpson?

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        She was disguised as Piccolo from DBZ

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    I kinda appreciate the mental image of her on a small yacht wine drunk from brunch and slipping falling over and then immediately blaming the comunists

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    “oh no! anyway”

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    Crazy how Oslo is right next to the Venezuelan border man and how she didn’t fuck off the second she cashed out

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    Silly me for thinking she was in the usa this entire time

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    Heheh…

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    She tried to get to Norway, on a fishing boat?

    Is ‘weather’ an alias for SoW Kegseth?

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      she literally just went to curazao, which is like 50km from the coast of venezuela and then rode a private plane to norway lmao. At the very most, it was a 3 hour trip lmao.

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