Overview
- Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store confirmed that Nobel laureate María Corina Machado has departed Oslo, with her location not disclosed.
- Machado’s spokesperson says she is attending specialist medical appointments after doctors in Oslo examined the vertebra fracture incurred during her journey out of Venezuela.
- Accounts of the extraction describe a mostly nocturnal, rough-water sea transit to the Caribbean and a private flight to Norway, with U.S. veteran Bryan Stern’s Grey Bull Rescue Foundation claiming to have led the operation.
- Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro publicly derided reports of her injury and attacked her character on state television.
- Machado reiterates she intends to return to Venezuela even as tensions rise, with reports of expanded U.S. deployments and actions targeting sanctioned oil tankers drawing condemnation from Caracas.