After announcing for several days the imminent arrival of Maria Corina Machado in Oslo to collect the Nobel Peace Prize, this finally took place in the early hours of Wednesday to Thursday. Although he was unable to attend the ceremony, … A priority was to reunite with his family, who had traveled to the Norwegian capital for this celebration and reunion.
A reunion cherished on several occasions in recent days, but which was delayed due to the difficulties of the Venezuelan opponent in leaving her country, where she has lived in hiding for sixteen months.
Cris: “brave, brave”this is how she was received after appearing on the Nobel balcony greeting the participants who came to the Grand Hotel to meet their leader again. She and those present sang the Venezuelan anthem as a symbol of freedom.
Machado greeted his supporters warmly and tearfully hugged his acquaintances as people around him shouted “Liberate Venezuela!” », “We love you”. All along her journey along the fence, people were rushing towards her trying to touch her.
The president of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Jorgen Watne Frydneshad already announced at 1 a.m. (local time) that Machado had arrived in Oslo and was heading towards the Grand Hotel. The award winner ruled out holding a meeting at that time as planned.
Frydnes also stressed that they would try to organize a press conference this Thursday but, so far, nothing has been confirmed.
The hotel remained full of people eager to see the leader of the opposition. Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain; Leopoldo López and the Republican deputy Maria Elvira Salazarwere some of the people who stood at the main entrance to receive her. In fact, Salazar told ABC that he would wait for Machado as long as necessary and would not leave the premises until she saw him.
His family also stayed at the Grand Hotel. “I’m very excited. I already anticipate moments of crying, of trying to reclaim the time that the regime stole from us together. “The whole family is waiting for him here,” she said enthusiastically this Wednesday. Ana Corina Sosadaughter of Machado, who was responsible this Wednesday for collecting the Nobel Prize in the forced absence of her mother.
Sosa wanted to remember that this pain she feels because of the separation, “is also felt by millions of Venezuelans. This is something that we have as a family, that today we will have the opportunity to see my mother, to smell her, to hold her. Oslo, where he lives.
Ana Corina, daughter of the Nobel Prize winner, called on Venezuelans “to gather again to receive my mother.”
In this same place, where this Wednesday evening the gala dinner offered to the winner of the Nobel Peace Prizewhich on this occasion could not be honored, this is where Machado will stop as soon as he lands in Oslo.
The daughter, a few minutes before joining the dinner, announced to journalist Carla Angola that her mother was expected to arrive at “twelve o’clock in the evening, or early in the morning.” And he called on Venezuelans “to come together and come receive my mother, who will come and greet me from the balcony.” Ana Corina expressed the anxiety she felt at the idea of the reunion: “we count the hours, the minutes, the seconds… And it will soon be the case”.
Coming out of hiding
María Corina reportedly left Venezuela early Tuesday morning, after more than a year in hiding. According to two American officials consulted by ABC this Wednesday, the leader left the country by sea and reached the island of Curaçao, about forty miles from the coast, during the first stage of a tour organized in the strictest secrecy, reported David Alandete.
Venezuelan prosecutors threatened Machado with declaring her fugitive If he left the country, he has several pending cases opened by the Chavista justice system.
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