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Nobel winner escapes Venezuela disguised in wig to accept peace prize

Maria Corina Machado, a pro-democracy activist, stepped onto the balcony of Oslo’s Grand Hotel shortly before 2.30am on Thursday after spending more than a year in hiding in Caracas.

The 58-year-old was smuggled out of Venezuela with help from the US in defiance of a ⁠decade-long travel ban imposed by authorities in her home country, and after spending more than a year in hiding.

Wearing a wig and disguise, Ms Machado evaded 10 military checkpoints before boarding a small fishing boat across the Caribbean to the neighbouring island of Curaçao in a 10-hour operation, the Wall Street Journal reported.

She departed Curaçao on a private plane for Norway, stopping to refuel in Bangor, Maine, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Her escape had been meticulously planned over two months and her team reached out to the White House to ensure that the boat in which she was travelling was not targeted by US air strikes. Some 20 vessels leaving Venezuela have been hit in the last three months, killing 80 people.

“We co-ordinated that she was going to leave by a specific area so that they would not blow up the boat,” said the person close to the operation.

At the time of Ms Machado’s crossing in Curaçao, two US Navy F-18s flew into the Gulf of Venezuela, where they spent 40 minutes flying in tight circles near her route, flight tracking data show. It was the closest incursion by US planes in Venezuelan airspace since tensions rose in September.

Speaking in Oslo, Ms Machado described the joy of reuniting with her children – who live in exile – for the first time in two years.

“For over 16 months I haven’t been able to hug or touch anyone,” she told the BBC. “Suddenly, in the matter of a few hours, I’ve been able to see the people I love the most, and touch them and cry and pray together.”

Her escape was so guarded that the Nobel Institute said it did not know where she was when the prize ceremony began in Oslo on Wednesday.

Ms Machado greeted dozens of people from the balcony of the hotel where Nobel laureates traditionally stay. She waved and sang the national anthem along with the crowd, who flew Venezuelan flags and filmed her with their mobile phones.

Later, Ms Machado came down to the street and climbed over crowd barriers to hug and shake hands with people who had gathered in the cold for a chance to see her.

Diana Luna, a Mexican-German woman in the said, said: “After all these months hiding, with her life in danger, seeing her safe among the Venezuelan diaspora is both reassuring and energising.

“It is also a way for the Venezuelan cause to stay alive and to put more pressure on the regime.”

Ms Machado arrived in Oslo just a few hours too late to collect the Nobel Prize herself.

Instead, Ana Corina Sosa ‌Machado, her daughter, accepted the award in her name and delivered a speech written by her mother in which she said democracies must be prepared to fight for freedom in order to survive.

In her speech, Ms Machado said that the prize held profound significance, not only for her country but for the world.

“It reminds the world that democracy is essential to peace,” she said via her daughter. “And more than anything, what we Venezuelans can offer the world is the lesson forged through this long and difficult journey: that to have a democracy, we must be willing to ‍fight for freedom.”

A source, who had been briefed by Ms Machado’s camp, said her escape from the Venezuelan coast was handled by her security staff.

When she arrived in Curaçao at 3pm on Tuesday, she was met by a private contractor, who was supplied by the Trump administration and specialises in extractions, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Ms Machado’s travel to Curaçao.

Speaking at her hotel early on Thursday, Ms Machado said she planned to return to Venezuela despite the risks she faced.

“Of course I’m going back,” she told the BBC.

Ms Machado later said she did not know when she would return but said she would do so to “end with this tyranny very soon and have a free Venezuela”.

“I came to receive the prize on behalf of the Venezuelan people and I will take it back to Venezuela at the correct moment,” the main opponent to Nicolas Maduro told reporters as she left the Norwegian parliament on Thursday morning.

A large portrait of a smiling Ms Machado hung in the Oslo City Hall to represent her ‍at the ceremony. The audience cheered and clapped when Jorgen Watne Frydnes, the head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said during his speech that Ms Machado would be coming to Oslo.

She will address the Norwegian parliament later on Thursday.

Evoking previous laureates Nelson Mandela and Lech Walesa, Mr Frydnes said fighters for democracy were expected “to pursue their aims with a moral purity their opponents never display”.

“This is unrealistic. It is unfair,” he said.

“No democracy operates in ideal circumstances. Activist leaders must confront and resolve dilemmas that we onlookers are free to ignore. People living under the dictatorship often have to choose between the difficult and the impossible.”

In 2024, Ms Machado was barred from running ‍in the presidential election, despite having won the opposition’s primary by a landslide. She went into hiding in August 2024 after authorities expanded arrests of opposition figures following the disputed vote.

The electoral authority and top court declared Nicolas Maduro the winner, but international observers and the opposition say their candidate won and the opposition has published ballot box-level tallies as evidence of its victory.

“Freedom is ​a choice that must be renewed each day, measured by our willingness and ‍our courage to defend it. For this reason, the cause of Venezuela transcends our borders,” Ms Machado said in her prepared speech.

“A people who choose freedom contribute not only to themselves, but to humanity.”

Mr Maduro, who has been in power since 2013, has said Donald Trump, the US president, is trying to overthrow him to gain access to Venezuela’s vast oil reserves ‍and that Venezuelan citizens and armed forces will resist any such attempt.

When the announcement was made in October that Ms Machado had won the Nobel Peace Prize, she dedicated it in part to Mr Trump, who has said he deserved the honour. She has aligned herself with hawks close to Mr Trump who argue that Mr Maduro has links to criminal gangs that pose a direct threat to US national security, despite doubts raised by the US intelligence community.

The Trump administration has ordered more than 20 military strikes in recent months against alleged drug-trafficking vessels in the Caribbean and off Latin America’s Pacific coast.

Human rights groups, some Democrats and several Latin American countries have condemned the attacks as unlawful extrajudicial killings of civilians.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/12/11/venezuela-opposition-leader-nobel-peace-prize-maria-machado/


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Why did she chose to do that please


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So na this great scholar Venezuela wan waste

BlackViper:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWq4_HZOo44?si=yx6g-Q7BH8jvm2s-

Nobel winner escapes Venezuela disguised in wig to accept peace prize




https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/12/11/venezuela-opposition-leader-nobel-peace-prize-maria-machado/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_ngsMHvgoE?si=EA9hEvf1bki6Jyig

Lamba.
You need accomplices to escape detection. Wig is not enough

Is this not the woman that wants to dash Venezuela oil field to Trump

Wow.. this is truly what activism is about ... Not the cashshivist that pollutes the Nigerian space

God bless America

God punish Islamabad

God punish terrorist who have to shout "Their God is the greatest" in Arabic before they make things and humans BOOM!!!

God bless Donald Ejike Afolabi Trump!!!

This land has already made deals to sell Venezuela's untapped oil reserves

I find it hard to believe this story

How Tinubu will escape Nigeria when the youths wake up...💪

Apart from the recognition what else does this award come with?

prize that was belong to trump, hatred no allow them give am, giving flimsy excuse of late nomination

She didn’t escape any military check point, the military guys love her and just allowed her to pass.

Give it to the US when it comes to covert operations like this......the covert operation wey Nigeria say make them do ,naim Burkinafaso still hold 11 officers hostage

Propaganda.

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MarkNsukkaBread:
I find it hard to believe this story

Probably extensive Hollywood make-up, not just "wig"!

Gotta wonder if DJT will offer her executive office political asylum in the US. It doesn't look like she can return home without facing repercussions for breaking the travel ban. She wanted to give Mr. Trump her Nobel Peace Prize. Now is the golden opportunity for both of them.😉

BreakingNews21:
Gotta wonder if DJT will offer her executive office political asylum in the US. It doesn't look like she can return home without facing repercussions for breaking the travel ban. She wanted to give Mr. Trump her Nobel Peace Prize. Now is the golden opportunity for both of them.😉

The prize is not hers to give!😅

Same way someone chickened out of Nigeria in female skates to Equatorial Guinea during Abacha regime only to come back years later to claim democrat and shout emilokan

No wahala I will watch it as a movie

BlackViper:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWq4_HZOo44?si=yx6g-Q7BH8jvm2s-

Nobel winner escapes Venezuela disguised in wig to accept peace prize




https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/12/11/venezuela-opposition-leader-nobel-peace-prize-maria-machado/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_ngsMHvgoE?si=EA9hEvf1bki6Jyig

Opposition in Nigeria are really enjoying, I always laugh when they claim democracy or freedom is dead in nigeria , visit Rwanda, ivory Coast, Tanzania, Cameroon, Russia, Venezuela and find out what democracy is dead truly means.

jeff1993:
God bless America

God punish Islamabad

God punish terrorist who have to shout "Their God is the greatest" in Arabic before they make things and humans BOOM!!!

God bless Donald Ejike Afolabi Trump!!!

Let me correct you, he is called Donald Olawale Ibrahim Musa Azikiwe Trump PBUH SAW HAHAHA mucheche Hahaha oturugbeke hahaha 😂

She's jewish and has been penciled down by Black Rock's L@rry Fink to be the new democratic leader of Venezuela.

Black Rock also installed that Jew in Mexico who won after her Jewish mafia cartel murdered 56 candidates to pave way for her to emerge as President.

There's a video of this Jewish woman pitching Venezuela as a major untapped resource rich country.

Zion Don isn't threatning war on Venezuela over drugs . if he really wanted to end drugs into entering US he would have sent the Marines to.take out the Jewish cartel across the border in Mexico.

Also, Trump's peace deal with Russia over Ukraine is because the war there is over and Black Rock is no longer backing Ukraine.

Trump wants Putin not to assist Venezuela when he invades and is dangling to stop funding and backing the Jewish Zekensky mafia in Kiev in exchange that Russia doesn't send ballistic and cruise missiles to Venezuela.

But China has said they will stand firmly with Venezuela.

allen113:
Apart from the recognition what else does this award come with?

Money too. They get Money toi

Venezuela and Nigeria should be recolonised

Wow……this is very very interesting

89green:
Is this not the woman that wants to dash Venezuela oil field to Trump

Venezuela oil has high sulphur and is expensive to produce

Plus USA is almost energy independent

Hmm this reminds me of one other nobel laureate who disguised 🥸 to escape from 9ja and go to mischievously collect his own award after agreeing to unilaterally boycott it 😏

DomPerignon:
She's jewish and has been penciled down by Black Rock's L@rry Fink to be the new democratic leader of Venezuela.

Black Rock also installed that Jew in Mexico who won after her Jewish mafia cartel murdered 56 candidates to pave way for her to emerge as President.

There's a video of this Jewish woman pitching Venezuela as a major untapped resource rich country.

Zion Don isn't threatning war on Venezuela over drugs . if he really wanted to end drugs into entering US he would have sent the Marines to.take out the Jewish cartel across the border in Mexico.

Also, Trump's peace deal with Russia over Ukraine is because the war there is over and Black Rock is no longer backing Ukraine.

Trump wants Putin not to assist Venezuela when he invades and is dangling to stop funding and backing the Jewish Zekensky mafia in Kiev in exchange that Russia doesn't send ballistic and cruise missiles to Venezuela.

But China has said they will stand firmly with Venezuela.

Actually she is a Roman Catholic of Spanish descent.

Better stop spreading lies old man. This your Jew obsession is too too much.

nairalanda1:
Actually she is a Roman Catholic of Spanish descent.

Better stop spreading lies old man. This your Jew obsession is too too much.

She's a crypto Jew.

She has been a vocal Zionist and has pledged support to Israel.

Which true catholic will be a Zionist ?

Zionist Christians are only found in brain dead American Evangelical heretic cult and our IPOB voodoo pagan cultists.