The President Javier Milei returns to Argentina without the expected photo with the Venezuelan opposition leader, Maria Corina Machadowho was supposed to receive the award in Norway Nobel Peace Prizenor with the leaders of the Nordic country.
The personal delegation’s decision to return to the country was made before uncertainty about what Machado finally arrives in Oslo. This Wednesday it was his daughter, Ana Corina Sosawhich received the award in his name. In the last few hours it has become known that the opposition leader has managed to leave Venezuela and that she will speak publicly tomorrow.
In this way, Milei turns around without completing her meeting with him. King Harald V and the prime minister from Norway, Jonas Gahr Storeas announced in the official agenda. The Argentine government had said that meetings with the highest Norwegian authorities were scheduled for 11:30 a.m. and 1:10 p.m. this Wednesday; however in the Agenda of the royal family from the Scandinavian country they never appeared.
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In addition to the Argentine President, the Argentine head of state also took part in the ceremony. Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, from Paraguay, Santiago Peña and from Panama, José Raúl Mulino Quintero. The other Venezuelan opposition leader was also present. Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia.
Machado’s daughter received the Nobel Prize
In his speech at the award ceremony Ana Corina Sosa He read his mother’s letter. “Your Majesties, Royal Highnesses, distinguished members of the Nobel Committee, citizens of the world, my dear Venezuelans: I have come to tell you a story, the story of a people and their long journey towards freedom,” he said at the beginning.
“We realized how fragile our institutions had become when it was too late. The leader of a military coup against democracy was elected president,” he said, pointing out that since 1999 the regime has been committed to dismantling our democracy: it has violated the constitution, corrupted the armed forces, censored the press and rigged elections.
He then denounced the electoral fraud in the last elections. “We decided to trust the people… and the people trusted us again.” “Edmundo González won with 77% of the vote in every state, city and town. The same story was told in every record,” he said.
“The dictatorship responded with terror. Two thousand five hundred people were kidnapped, disappeared or tortured. More than two hundred and twenty teenagers were electrocuted, beaten and suffocated to force them to lie,” he said, describing the current situation.
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