María Corina trades a Nobel medal for a bad photo

This Friday's front pages tell the story of the power of American imperialism. María Corina Machado visited Donald Trump at the White House. She was accompanied by the utter dismay she felt upon realizing that the American president and viceroy of Venezuela had chosen to make a pact with Chavismo rather than hand over power to her. And she carried a gift: the original Nobel Peace Prize medal she had received (and which the Narcissistic Chief also coveted). The Spanish press is giving her every possible slant, but the pictures don't lie: María Corina is photographed outside the White House grounds, because the meeting was held without photographers, something exceptional considering that Trump is always photographed. The CountryPerhaps with a touch of malice, he crops the photograph so that a label is visible that can be read with ulterior motives: "Restricted area. Do not enterThe former congresswoman offered her tribute at the altar of despair, but so many hours passed before the White House released a photo of the moment—and of terrible quality at that—that it was already too late for the press here. The result? Behind bars.

"Trump receives María Corina with the promise of elections, but without a timetable," says theABCtrying to disguise how meager the profit has been. The World A poll strip shows that their electoral prospects are four times higher than Delcy Rodríguez's. Spanish newspapers, in general, maintain a parallel narrative, highly idealistic but with little grounding in reality. The only amusing thing, at least, is reading them now talking about political prisoners, a concept they, who knows why, used much more sparingly eight years ago.