By The Diary
Sep 14, 2024, 3:34 PM EDT
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado thanked Italy’s Bruno Leoni Institute after awarding her a prize for “the incredible courage, the extraordinary lucidity, the inexhaustible passion that she has put, over the years, at the service of the cause of freedom,” according to the European institution.
“I wholeheartedly thank the Bruno Leoni Institute for honoring me with its 2024 Freedom Award,” Machado wrote on the social network X, where she added that she receives the award as recognition for the “heroic feat” of Venezuelans “determined to be free, and who on July 28, in the most extreme conditions,” exercised popular sovereignty and defeated “tyranny.”
Ringrazio di cuore l’Istituto Bruno Leoni @istbrunoleoni to be honored with the Premio della Libertà 2024.
What I received is the richest knowledge of the historic achievements of the Venezuelans determined by the freedoms and the 28th day, nonostante le condizioni etreme, abbiamo esercitato… https://t.co/WEmX78nt6Q
— Maria Corina Machado (@MariaCorinaYA) September 13, 2024
Machado said she was proud to “fight” alongside each of her fellow countrymen inside and outside Venezuela, and to be part of the “most powerful” citizen movement ever “seen in this land.”
The Bruno Leoni Institute also explained that the Venezuelan opposition figure’s commitment “under the most difficult conditions” in “her constant struggle for freedom and human rights” in Venezuela motivated the award, which will be presented to her on November 11 in Milan, during the foundation’s annual dinner.
The institute said in a statement that it had shown “great intellectual rigor” and “extraordinary courage in putting at risk his own person, his body, his freedom” in his fight “against the legalized arbitrariness of the current Venezuelan regime.”
“The mobilization that you led, on the occasion of the elections of July 2024, is an example of non-violent protest that has been able to reveal to the world the nature of the regime,” they concluded.
The Venezuelan opposition, grouped in the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), insists, almost two months before the elections, that its standard-bearer Edmundo González Urrutía won the presidential elections on July 28 by a large difference over his rival, which, it claims, was demonstrated by “83.5% of the electoral records” collected by witnesses and table members on election day, and then scanned and uploaded to a website.
For its part, the electoral body, the National Electoral Council (CNE), led by the ruling party, has not published the disaggregated results or the minutes, despite this, it proclaimed Nicolás Maduro as the winner, while a large part of the international community continues to demand that it publish the documents confirming the alleged victory of the Chavista.
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