Venezuelan Election Operation Among ‘Good’ Grand Prix Winners on Cannes Lions 2026 Day 5

Comando Con Venezuela, the informal Venezuelan political organization established to support politician María Corina Machado’s candidacy, has won the Grand Prix for Good for its “600K Network” election operation by Rainbow Lobster.

When Machado was barred from standing as the leading opposition candidate to the widely classified authoritarian dictator, Nicolás Maduro, the political organization meticulously planned a way to prove the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election was rigged, after the opposition had disputed the ballot count for years without proof.

Comando Con Venezuela secretly trained 600,000 volunteers and election witnesses to use their cell phones to scan and digitally secure the QR codes printed on the physical voting ballots, gathering 85% of voting tallies. When Maduro claimed power without proof, the Associated Press reported a 30-point gap between the official results and the actual results, a finding corroborated by The Carter Center and The Washington Post.

Machado went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to save Venezuela from its authoritarian fate.

Here are the other Grand Prix winners across Glass and Sustainable Development Goals.

Glass 

Instituto Yduqs, the philanthropic arm of Yduqs, Brazil’s largest higher education group, and IDOMED, a medical education institute, won the Glass Grand Prix for their medical study, “Nigrum Corpus.” The campaign was created by Artplan and tackles the fact that Black patients in Brazil (who make up 55.5% of the population) are six times more likely to suffer medical errors.

Drawing from testimonies and healthcare data, they created a study to teach medical students how to treat Black bodies, mapping more than 20 conditions and including diagnostic comparisons across skin tones to dosage differences between Black and white children. The study was made available to universities across Brazil as a literacy tool for future doctors and has now been included in the World Health Organization’s collection.

Sustainable Development Goals 

Kenyan dairy brand Too Good won the Sustainable Development Goals Grand Prix for “Paid Sick Pay for Cows,” created by The Partnership Agency. Kenya has the highest per capita milk consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa, with 80% of production coming from smallholder farmers. When Too Good found out 1 in 4 milk samples tested positive for antibiotics because farmers couldn’t afford to stop production during the withdrawal period, it created a labor framework and offered farmers paid sick leave for cows. The initiative registered dairy cows as economic workers and enabled farmers to apply for paid sick leave via WhatsApp. $27,000 was returned to farmers for withheld milk, which helped protect their income.