(public domain picture of Alfred Nobel) María Corina Machado is celebrated as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and symbol of resistance to Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarian rule. Yet her closest international alliances lie not with centrist democrats, but with a hard transnational right stretching from Washington to Madrid, Rome and Jerusalem. Mimeta examines how this shapes the meaning of “freedom” in and beyond Venezuela.
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I work carefully and imperceptibly below the surface when it comes to freedom of artistic expression. Deep down I stand by those who want to break it but remind them of realities above the surface. At the same time, the water becomes shallower. This is my duty as a producer.
(Faisal Kiwewa, Bayimba, Uganda.)
