COMMENTARY: The Trump administration’s withdrawal from key digital‑rights and cultural‑governance bodies exposes a sharp clash of political visions. On one side, the United States casts multilateral institutions as vehicles of “global governance” and “progressive ideology” that threaten national sovereignty. On the other, Norway treats the very same organizations as essential infrastructure for protecting human rights, artistic freedom and cultural heritage.
(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.
