Venezuela/Norway - Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado sneaks out of Venezuela and goes to Norway, 10 November 2025

[Rikissa]

It was uncertain until the last moment if 2025 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado would be able to go to Oslo for the ceremony. She had been in hiding the last couple of months, as the Venezuelan government has forbidden her to leave the country. She finally managed to get out, in disguise, and first a long drive from Caracas to the coast, and then a 10-hour-long journey in a small fishing boat from the Venezuelan coast to the island of Curaçao, before she was able to take a plane to Oslo. The plane journey was privately arranged with support from the US, and the plane made a stop in Maine, before the final leg to Oslo, where she landed in the evening.

The US government had been informed in advance of the boat journey from Venezuela to Curaçao, to prevent that US troups would attack and sink the boat, as they have done with other similar boats. It appears that the Trump government had knowledge, and perhaps supported, Ms Machado's journey to Oslo.

The above is from a Finnish newspaper, unfortunately Google Translate doesn't work when I try to translate it into English, but the same information is likely found in the two other articles below:

https://www.hbl.fi/2025-12-11/forkladd-machado-tog-sig-genom-tio-vagsparrar/

Venezuelan Nobel winner tells BBC she knows 'risks' of Oslo trip after months in hiding

María Corina Machado, who has been threatened by her home country's government, speaks about her secret journey to Norway.

www.bbc.com

‘Follow the path of exiles’: María Corina Machado’s US-aided escape from Venezuela

Nobel peace laureate’s decision to flee on people-smuggling route is highly symbolic, but will her influence wane if unable to return?

www.theguardian.com

Nobel Peace Prize 2025

The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy"

www.nobelprize.org

 

[PrairieWind]

It is interesting that thousands of Venezuelan men enter the US illegally, after fleeing their country with their governments approval, but a woman receiving a Nobel Peace Prize is not allowed to leave. It sort of tells you a little bit about the current government in Venezuela.

 

[pigpen000]

I expect she is part of the rival political views/party

 

[PrairieWind]

I expect she is part of the rival political views/party

She is likely the actual duly elected President of Venezuela. Virtually no one, including the UN, thinks the election of last year was fair. By almost all measures Machado clearly won the election but Maduro just said "No." Where does that leave everyone?

 

[Rikissa]

She is likely the actual duly elected President of Venezuela. Virtually no one, including the UN, thinks the election of last year was fair. By almost all measures Machado clearly won the election but Maduro just said "No." Where does that leave everyone?

You can read (or watch) the speeches given at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony here, Nobel Peace Prize 2025 Those will give an understanding of how the humanitarian and political situation in Venezuela is today. It's not a country where it's safe to protest against the government, or to be a relative of someone who has voiced their opinion about the situation, it can end with disappearance, torture, and death.

 

[PrairieWind]

It is stunning how little this is discussed.

 

[pigpen000]

I don't know if it is an allowed source but I saw this story about the extraction

U.S. Special Forces Veteran Who Extracted Maria Corina Machado From Venezuela Says Choppy Seas Helped Operation: 'It Was Scary'

 

[Cedars]

It is stunning how little this is discussed.

JMO, there are complications in people's stance about Venezuala, as with Cuba. So for the media, it's way too subtle, way too political, way too confusing. And, of course, it's not about Epstein so who cares (irony).

ETA Just noticed this twist

Putin offers 'solidarity' for Venezuelan people as tensions mount between Maduro and US

Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed “solidarity with the Venezuelan people” amid growing tensions between Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, and the Trump administration.

apnews.com