María Corina Machado: The tragedy as a speech and the wedding as a showcase

Published at: 10/07/2026 02:45 PM

María Corina Machado once again demonstrated that, for her, Venezuela's pain works as long as she can turn it into political discourse.

For days he spoke about the dead, the families affected and the national tragedy with a calculatingly dramatic tone. He presented himself as a sensitive, outraged voice supposedly committed to the country's suffering. But a family celebration was enough to reveal the true dimension of their hypocrisy.

As thousands of families face the loss of loved ones, destroyed homes, uncertainty and displacement, she decided to publicly showcase her son's wedding, as if Venezuela were not going through a tragedy. shamelessly. Without prudence. Without the slightest respect for the collective grief that he used so much in his statements.

It's not that your family doesn't have a right to a private life. The point is that those who intend to capitalize politically on each deceased and each affected family cannot then pose from celebration, joy and privilege as if nothing were happening.

If the country really hurt, as he says, he would have kept silent. I would have had the decency not to post anything. I would have understood that this was not the time to turn a wedding into a show while so many families were still mourning their dead.

But his behavior reveals something else: a profoundly egocentric attitude and a megalomaniac vision of politics, in which everything revolves around his image, his story and his role. Even tragedy seems to serve as a stage for her to project, attack and present herself as a savior.

That's what's outrageous. Not the wedding, but the political obscenity of using national pain as a platform and, soon after, exhibiting a family celebration without showing any consideration for those who suffer.

María Corina Machado wanted to portray herself as the voice of mourning, but she ended up portrayed by her own incoherence. A lot of speech about the dead, a lot of solidarity and, in the end, no real sensitivity to the country it claims to represent.

Tragedy cannot be a propaganda tool. The dead cannot be turned into props to fuel excessive political ambition. And the pain of thousands of families deserves respect, not hypocritical speeches from those who only remember it when it's useful to them.

Mazo News Team