Machado Reaches Oslo After Secret Escape, Vows to Return With Nobel

Overview

• The Nobel Committee said María Corina Machado arrived in Oslo hours after the ceremony, where her daughter Ana Corina Sosa accepted the Peace Prize and delivered her speech.
• In public remarks, Machado pledged to do “everything possible” to return and to take the award back to Venezuela, without specifying timing or method.
• U.S. and media accounts report she left by boat to Curaçao before flying to Norway, a journey the Nobel Institute described as undertaken in “extreme danger.”
• From Oslo, she accused the Maduro government of enabling Russian and Iranian agents, Hezbollah and Hamas, guerrillas and drug cartels, and called for cutting the regime’s funding streams.
• Venezuelan authorities accuse her of conspiracy, incitement and terrorism and had warned she would be deemed a fugitive if she left; the Nobel Committee’s chief urged Nicolás Maduro to accept the 2024 results and resign, and President Trump said he would not be happy if she were detained.