Overview
- Machado reached Oslo shortly after midnight, hours after her daughter accepted the Nobel Prize on her behalf.
- According to reporting, she left a Caracas-area hideout in a wig, then took a roughly ten-hour car journey through army checkpoints to the coast.
- She boarded a wooden boat bound for Curaçao, and organizers notified the U.S. Navy in advance so the vessel would not be misidentified.
- An alleged American special forces veteran told CBS he ferried her by boat for 13–14 hours to a secret rendezvous where she caught a flight to Norway.
- The operation was planned only days beforehand with about two dozen helpers, as U.S. pressure on Maduro intensifies through sanctions, naval actions and talk of possible strikes, while Russia’s public backing has been notably muted.