- The award will be presented on November 11 in Milan, during the institution’s annual dinner. Main photo: EFE
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Bruno Leoni Prize in Italy on Friday, September 13, 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 what was explained by the eponymous Institute that awarded her the prize.
Machado’s commitment “under the most difficult conditions” during “her constant struggle for freedom and human rights” in Venezuela has motivated the award, which will be presented to her on November 11 in Milan, during the institution’s annual dinner.
Machado is in Venezuela clandestinely after Edmundo González Urritia’s departure from the countrywho was subject to an arrest warrant from the authorities and who was granted political asylum by the Spanish government.
The Bruno Leoni Institute The Bruno Leoni Institute said in a statement that it highlighted his “great intellectual rigor” and “extraordinary courage in putting his own person, his body, his freedom at risk” 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,” the motivations conclude.
Alberto Mingardi, director of the Institute, explained that “we also want to give a small sign of profound solidarity towards the Venezuelans, who have been victims for years of a brutal regime that has largely annulled all individual rights.”
“Its cause seems peripheral compared to the major disputes that are the focus of geopolitical experts, and does not arouse the interest of commentators,” he added, “but the dramatic outcome of the experiment of ‘21st century socialism’ contains lessons that we too must try to learn.”
About Bruno Leoni Institute
Founded in 2003 to promote liberal thought in Italy, since 2008 it has awarded prizes to those who “have contributed to the advancement of the ideas of individual freedom, the market and free competition.” Previous winners include the President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso (2021) and the writer Mario Vargas Llosa (2014).
Presidential elections in Venezuela
According to the electoral records published by the opposition, Edmundo González won the July 28 elections with 70% of the votes, after Machado was disqualified from running, although the National Council (CNE) declared Nicolás Maduro the winner without presenting the detailed records.
The two bulletins issued by the CNE consisted of oral reports in which the percentages and number of votes obtained by the candidates were discussed on television only. There was no support or detail of the specific results on a website or in the electoral gazettes.
Bruno Leoni Award 2023
The Bruno Leoni Institute awarded the prize in 2023 to John Papola, an American director and producer who created two raps dedicated to the battle of ideas between Hayek and Keynes, on the theory of the economic cycle. It is a different language from the usual ones used to impart basic economic education, with the aim of engaging a younger audience.
John Papola’s works reached millions of people. The Bruno Leoni Institute awarded him an award for transmitting to the public the fundamentals of microeconomic reasoning.
With information from EFE.
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2024-09-13 15:47:12
