Overview
- María Corina Machado arrived in Oslo late Wednesday night and greeted supporters from a hotel balcony after the prize was awarded without her.
- Ana Corina Sosa Machado accepted the medal and diploma at the Oslo ceremony on her mother’s behalf and delivered Machado’s prepared remarks.
- The Norwegian Nobel Institute said Machado is safe and described her trip as a journey undertaken under extreme danger.
- Reuters reporting, cited by multiple outlets, said she left Venezuela by boat to Curaçao before flying by private plane to Norway.
- Several Latin American presidents, including Argentina’s Javier Milei and Ecuador’s Daniel Noboa, attended the ceremony as prosecutors in Caracas maintain investigations that could expose Machado to arrest or a bar on re-entry.