It has been a very intense week for Maria Corina Machadofirstly for his efforts to leave his hiding place after 16 months and leave the country. She did it with the help of the United States, as she herself confirmed, in a … very risky operation which was about to fail. Machado admitted to being afraid for his life at one point. But not only her.
ABC spoke to Ana Corina Sosathe daughter of the winner, responsible for collecting the Nobel Peace Prize from her mother. She and her family also experienced a week full of emotions and uncertainties. Machado arrived early from Wednesday to Thursday and the first thing he did was meet them and spend a few minutes with them. He hadn’t seen his children in two years. His priority in recent hours has been to spend as much time as possible with them, his sisters, his mother…
We asked him how he saw his mother upon his arrival. Oslo after a journey of more than 48 hours, during which there were moments of great risk for her in an operation that was on the verge of failure.
“My mother is truly made of steel. I saw her with her head held high, but I also saw a mother who wanted to find her family, to hug them. Even though she always remained strong, upright, focused on the mission… This reunion was a very moving moment because, ultimately, we are human and we need our families,” he stressed. “We, the Venezuelans, endure and endure; and we stand despite the separation we feel, but knowing that this reunion is important.
But he acknowledges that feeling “is something that sometimes you try to put aside to survive, to keep fighting, to keep holding on, but it was a very emotional moment, without a doubt, and it reminded us that we can’t stop until everyone has this opportunity to come together. And that family support is something essential that makes us human, it was moving,” he noted.
“I hope that the world realizes the cruelty of the regime, it is a criminal regime which persecutes, which murders”
Regarding the trip outside Venezuela, some information about which has been revealed, he says that “without knowing all the details”, he knows that “it was very hard. “I hope that the world realizes the cruelty of the regime, it is a criminal regime which persecutes, which murders. » And he emphasizes that the ordeal his mother went through “was a moment of great risk, where we did not know if she was going to arrive alive, if she was going to arrive normal and that is very real. And this – he continues – is experienced today by hundreds of Venezuelan families. Today we have 887 political prisoners who are torturedand they do not receive medical care; and this is what my mother experienced too.
The urgency of the Venezuelan crisis
Ana Corina hopes that her mother’s situation, her fight and the conditions of her release will help “all over the world to become aware of the urgency of the Venezuelan crisis and that today there are political prisoners whose condition we do not know, nor do they receive medical care and their loved ones do not even know if they are alive.”
And he concluded with a request: “I ask the whole world that is listening to us today to see Venezuela, that it is not only about liberating a people and that it is not only something that we deserve, but that it is something urgent and that it is a humanitarian crisis and We need support from around the world. And today I hope that they will listen to us all over the world and support us.
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