Overview
- Multiple outlets describe a covert journey involving a wig disguise, a ten-hour drive past military checkpoints, a night boat to Curaçao, and an onward flight to Norway, with a helper telling CBS the sea crossing was dangerous.
- Machado reached Oslo after the ceremony, and her daughter Ana Corina Sosa Machado accepted the Nobel medal and diploma on her behalf.
- In excerpts of a CBS interview, she said she would welcome increasing pressure to force Nicolás Maduro out, added she knows of no U.S. plans, and declined to detail her route.
- The United States has intensified pressure through Treasury sanctions on three nephews of Cilia Flores, actions against oil shipping networks, and a visible Navy presence in Caribbean waters including a recent tanker interdiction.
- Russia’s public support has been muted, with a brief Kremlin readout of a Putin–Maduro call and cautious remarks from Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.