On the surface it looks like Maria fits the mold of previous winners pretty well other than perhaps her efforts are confined to her nation and have less global impact, but that isn't a requirement.
I find it impressive that she has managed to have this impact while at great personal risk.
The fact that she's a far-right Zionist-genocide-lover agitating for a fascist-regime-USA military takeover of Venezuela so she can get filthy rich off selling absolutely everything in the country for peanuts?
Yeah, I wonder why it's shameful.
Honestly, they should have just given it to Trump outright. It's a meaningless mark of shame either way, might as well let him have his toy.
My own view is that anyone labeled "pro-democracy" in the western establishment press is immediately suspect, given what "democracy" has devolved into in the leading western societies. This is not someone who is working in the best interests of the majority of Venezuelans. Rather, like most in the opposition, she is working towards the restoration of the status quo ante, where the ruling class ruled, and every one else knew their place.
So yeah, shameful. But unsurprising.
