Venezuelan opposition leader Machado reappears in Norway after months in hiding

Venezuelan absorption person María Corina Machado appeared successful nationalist Thursday for the archetypal clip successful 11 months successful Norway arsenic her girl accepted the Nobel Peace Prize grant connected her behalf.

Machado had been successful hiding since Jan. 9, erstwhile she was concisely detained aft joining supporters successful Venezuela’s capital, Caracas. Her designation came aft mounting a peaceful situation to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s government.

The assemblage chanted, "Freedom!" arsenic Machado stepped onto the edifice balcony successful Oslo, Norway, and waved to her supporters earlier joining them successful singing Venezuela’s nationalist anthem.

In an audio signaling of a telephone telephone published connected the Nobel website, Machado said she wouldn’t beryllium capable to get to Oslo successful clip for the grant ceremony, but that galore radical had "risked their lives" to get her there.

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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado waves astatine the Grand Hotel successful Oslo, Norway, connected Dec. 11, 2025. (Lise Åserud/NTB Scanpix via AP)

"I americium precise grateful to them, and this is simply a measurement of what this designation means to the Venezuelan people," she said.

Her daughter, Ana Corina Sosa, accepted the Nobel Prize successful her place, saying that her parent "wants to unrecorded successful a escaped Venezuela" and "will ne'er springiness up connected that purpose." 

"That is wherefore we each know, and I know, that she volition beryllium backmost successful Venezuela precise soon," Sosa added.

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The girl of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Ana Corina Sosa, accepts the grant connected behalf of her mother, Venezuelan absorption person Maria Corina Machado, during the Nobel Peace Prize ceremonial astatine Oslo City Hall, Norway, connected Dec. 10. (Ole Berg-Rusten/NTB Scanpix, Pool via AP)

Outside the hotel, Machado interacted and hugged radical successful the crowd, arsenic they snapped pictures and sprinkled her with chants of "President! President!"

"I privation you each backmost successful Venezuela," Machado said.

Machado's quality came aft President Donald Trump connected Wednesday announced the U.S. seized a Venezuelan lipid tanker, a determination that could further strain relations with Maduro’s government, which already is taxable to extended U.S. sanctions targeting the country's lipid sector.

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Venezuelan absorption person Maria Corina Machado gestures astatine a protestation up of the Friday inauguration of President Nicolás Maduro for his 3rd term, successful Caracas, Venezuela, connected Jan. 9, 2025.  (REUTERS/Maxwell Briceno)

Since September, U.S. subject strikes person targeted alleged narcotraffickers adjacent Venezuela astatine slightest 22 times, sidesplitting 87 people. Trump has besides precocious said Maduro's "days are numbered" and refused to regularisation retired a crushed cognition successful Venezuela. 

Steve Yates, elder probe chap for China and nationalist information argumentation astatine The Heritage Foundation, said connected "Fox News @ Night" connected Wednesday that Machado's visit overseas was an accidental to get "greater planetary support" for her cause, adding that Trump mightiness payment from having much of America's allies successful Europe enactment a "non-invasion" approach.

The Venezuelan absorption person has antecedently been outspoken successful her enactment for the Trump administration's actions against Maduro's authorities and the country's narcotrafficking network.

After the grant was announced successful October, the recently minted Nobel Peace Prize victor dedicated the grant to some Trump and the "suffering radical of Venezuela."

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Venezuelan vas destroyed during U.S. subject onslaught disconnected of Venezuela Sept. 2, 2025. (@realDonaldTrump via Truth Social)

Machado said during a "Fox & Friends Weekend" interrogation past period that Venezuela was lasting astatine the "threshold of freedom," highlighting her caller "freedom manifesto" that envisions a aboriginal without the Maduro regime.

Fox News Digital's Morgan Phillips and The Associated Press contributed to this report.