Open letter to Norwegian editorially controlled media, the parliament and the government
– By Ane Hoel, Board member, Cuba Association in Norway, January 8, 2026
«J’accuse» – «I Accuse», is a reference to Émile Zola’s open letter in the “Dreyfus Affair”
Caracas 5. January 2026 from one of the daily demonstrations in the Venezuelan capital after Nicolas Maduro and his wife were abducted by US Special Forces.
By insisting on the lie that the re-election of Nicolás Maduro as Venezuela’s President on July 28, 2024 was “stolen” from the far-right candidate, Norwegian politicians and the editorially controlled Norwegian press, including certain Norwegian academics, have laid the foundation for the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s candidate, Maria Corina Machado. The editorially controlled Norwegian press, Norwegian politicians and the Nobel Committee have thereby supported the US attack on Venezuela, the abduction of the country’s president and the liquidation of a hitherto unknown number of people in connection with it. And not least, they have supported the US liquidation of over a hundred sailors off the coast of Venezuela in recent months.
Nicolás Maduro is not a dictator, as he is portrayed in editorial-controlled media in Norway. Nicolás Maduro is the trade unionist who, together with Hugo Chavez, insisted that Venezuela’s rich resources belong to the country’s population and should benefit them. Education, health and decent housing should be a human right. For the many, not for the few. That was not the case before. Then the oil money flowed unhindered into the pockets of large foreign companies.
This is Nicolás Maduro’s crime and the background to the US’s deadly sanctions against the country for over ten years. Sanctions that have had the express goal of making life in Venezuela so unbearable that the population would turn against its own government.
But even faced with this, Nicolás Maduro won the election by a wide margin in 2024. Maria Corina Machado & co could not have won the election, no matter how much support she received from the US. Machado has never united the opposition, it is power for herself that she has wanted. That is why the US has been able to exploit her in order to steal the election from the people’s Maduro. As Trump himself admits, Machado “is a nice woman”, but she does not have enough support in Venezuela. That is why the uprising on election night itself was well prepared and staged from the moment the polling stations closed, with attacks on public buildings and roads by paid gangsters, who in the Western media have become thousands of “political prisoners”. The US knew very well that their fabricated opinion polls and other subversive activities were not enough to win the people.
The election in Venezuela has been approved by the country’s Supreme Court and by over a third of the UN member states. Norwegian editor-controlled media do not tell the public that Venezuela has over 30 approved parties, and public institutions like we have in our own country; that it is a functioning democracy fully on par with the US and other countries in the West. Norwegian media has clung to a Quisling from the most violent gangster environment in the world, a person who hands over her own people to plunder and war, and who supports the genocide of the Palestinians. To refer to democracy and human rights in such a situation is nothing short of monstrous.
Those who have cheered this unheard-of attack on an independent country and its president have blood on their hands, and you know it. This applies not only to the Nobel Committee’s chief liars Harpviken and Frydnes, but also to both the parliament and the government, which are not now distancing themselves from what you have legitimised.
Few countries in the West today have the moral courage to stand up for Venezuela and the values that should protect all countries, the UN and international law. But they do exist, including neighbours Brazil and Colombia. Cuba is currently mourning the 32 Cuban soldiers who were killed in the US attack.
Ex-Cuban Marco Rubio promises more. His personal vendetta against the Cuban revolution is at hand.