US EditionNobel Laureate Machado Plans Return to Venezuela, Whether or Not Maduro Is Ousted
Machado resurfaced publicly after 11 months, highlighting ongoing repression in Venezuela and receiving support from Norway to build democratic institutions.
- On Thursday, María Corina Machado arrived in Oslo hours after Wednesday's Nobel ceremony, emerged from the Grand Hotel balcony to greet supporters, and said `I don't think they have known where I have been.`
- Since Jan. 9 she had been in hiding after a brief detention following a protest in Caracas, and Machado won an opposition primary but was barred from last year's presidential election amid widespread repression before July 28, 2024.
- She declined to provide travel details but thanked `all those men and women that risked their lives` and flight tracking shows the plane she arrived on flew to Oslo from Bangor, Maine.
- Ana Corina Sosa, Machado's daughter, said `we decided to fight until the end and Venezuela will be free` and that if Maduro's government remains, `certainly I will be with my people and they will not know where I am.`
- The Nobel Peace Prize in October recognized María Corina Machado's peaceful challenge to President Nicolás Maduro, while tensions rose after the National Electoral Council , stacked with Maduro loyalists, declared him the winner.
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Venezuela's Machado Says Maduro Government Didn't Know Where She Was Hiding
We talked in Now es Cuando con Constanza Martínez, president of the Broad Front, about the controversies that have marked the campaign of Jeannette Jara around the figure of the Venezuelan opposition María Corina Machado, recently awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize, recognition that should have been received by her daughter due to security reasons.
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said Thursday that she does not believe the Venezuelan government knew where she was hiding for most of this year, in statements during a meeting with the president of Norway the day after her daughter received the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf.
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