“I hope they can see each other, hug each other and talk alone,” they said from Balcarce 50, thousands of kilometers from Oslo, where the president was Javier Milei waiting for the arrival of Maria Corina Machado.
Speaking to the Casa Rosada, the President awaits the arrival of the Venezuelan leader, who hours ago received the Nobel Peace Prize in absentia for her fight against the Chavista regime she leads. Nicolas Maduro. According to official sources, there is a possibility of extending the president’s stay in Norway and postponing his arrival in Buenos Aires, originally scheduled for Thursday morning, without specifying the arrival time of Machado, who has been living in secret for months.
Wearing a dark suit and light blue tie, President Javier Milei entered the main hall of Oslo City Hall with a smile and walked briskly along with the Secretary General of the Presidential Office. Karina Mileiand the official translator Walter Kerr.
When Milei reached the second row, just a few steps from the stage, he greeted the Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutiacame from Madrid and, together with his sister, was chosen between the President of Panama, Jose Mulinoand that of Ecuador, Daniel Noboaagain located next to its Paraguayan counterpart, Santiago Pena.
This is how the Argentine president began his participation in the ceremony at which the Venezuelan opposition figure María Corina Machado received the Nobel Peace Prize. It was a ceremony full of criticism of President Nicolás Maduro’s Chavista regime and without the presence of the laureate, who sent her speech “on the way” to the Norwegian capital to receive the award, which was read by one of her daughters, Ana Corina Machado.
with the Chancellor Pablo Quirno As a member of the delegation, Milei carefully followed the ceremony alternatives. He, like the rest of the leaders, applauded several passages from the fiery speech by the president of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Jørgen Watne Frydneswho praised Machado’s “ability to not give up” and sharply criticized Maduro. He stood as Frydnes called on Venezuela’s president to “accept the results and resign from office,” referring to the July 2024 elections that González Urrutia had hailed as a victory by the opposition and most Western countries.
The president also joined in the ovation Ana Corina Machadowhile the opposition leader’s daughter accepted the award, accompanied by members of the Nobel Prize Committee and with the Norwegian royal family a few steps away. The young woman read a speech written by her mother, in which she did not mention any president, but did mention the “Argentinians” who had sought refuge in Venezuela during the years of the country’s last military dictatorship.
Milei’s journey began at 8 p.m. on Monday as he left for Oslo on the official Arg01 aircraft. The next day, images released showed him entering the Grand Hotel dressed in the YPF overalls he normally wears during his work hours at the presidential villa in Olivos.
Without contact from the press, Milei tweeted congratulations for Machado on social networks, highlighting the opposition leader for her “tremendous fight for the courageous defense of freedom and democracy.” “Inspiration” that “illuminates” the world. “Fight against them Venezuelan drug dictatorship“.
Machado’s late arrival threw into doubt the rest of the president’s agenda, which included a meeting with King Harald V and the Norwegian prime minister. Jonas Gahr Storebefore making his return to Buenos Aires, with an expected arrival at midday on Thursday, although this could be delayed until Machado arrives in the Norwegian capital.
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