Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado secretly left Venezuela in a bid to get to Oslo in time to accept her award but was forced to miss the ceremony because bad weather delayed her journey, a person familiar with the matter said.
Machado got out of Venezuela on Tuesday with help from members of President Nicolás Maduro’s regime, according to the person, who asked not to be identified discussing private information. Some US officials see that as a sign of their willingness to cooperate if Maduro were to leave power.
Machado, who has been in hiding for more than a year, left Venezuela by boat to Curaçao, a Dutch Caribbean island about 40 miles away, the person said. The island is also home to a small US military base.
“There are many things we had to go through, and so many people who risked their lives so that I could get to Oslo,”
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