María Corina Machado is still in Oslo after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. The Venezuelan opposition leader arrived in Norway on Thursday after an odyssey that took her out of her 11-month hideout in Venezuela. It is known that he boarded a ship sailing without lights in the middle of the night and then boarded a plane.
Now they are emerging More details. The large-scale covert operation carried out on December 9th included, among others unprecedented deployment of US military forcesthe intervention of the CIA and the cooperation of Venezuelan intelligence agents, he said Investigative journalist Casto Ocando in a report published on their social networks.
The raid began with a CIA team that secretly moved Machado from his hiding place to a place on the coast of the state of Falcón, north of Venezuela. The exact location, which was not disclosed, was reached later several hours of travel on alternative routes, amid intense tension and surveillance.
The The cooperation of Venezuelan intelligence officials was crucial. Participating in counterintelligence and disinformation operations to divert the attention of state security forces such as the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence and the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service.
Casto Ocando is an investigative journalist originally from Venezuela and based in Miami. He has had a career as a journalist spanning more than 30 years, working for major media outlets in Venezuela (such as El Universal newspaper) and in the United States (such as El Nuevo Herald and Univision Networks’ investigative division).
Ocando also provided details in the collection of Venezuelans trapped in the Argentine embassyin Caracas, in May.
According to the journalist, it was an operation carefully planned for weeks involving the Pentagon and numerous military assets stationed in the Caribbean, including state-of-the-art drones and fighter jets piloted from the aircraft carrier Gerald Ford. It was the scene where Machado’s successful extraction took place to attend the Nobel Prize ceremony in the capital of Norway.
Machado has no plans to undertake a European tour after his departure from Oslo, but rather to focus on that Plan your return to Venezuela, Where would you like to return to? as quickly as possibleSources close to the former deputy told EFE.
“There is no plan to go to Spain. What she is doing now is her plan to return to Venezuela,” said the sources, who added that a tour of other European countries is also not planned.
Sources from her party in Spain confirmed that they were not aware that the opponent was planning to transit through Spain before returning to her country. a return that they foresee “with risks.”
“The moves she makes will be announced in due course and of course They are quite reserved and discreet for what her character represents,” they added from María Corina’s entourage in Spain.
The Venezuelan opponent announced that she would take the opportunity to pass “a few hours” with friends and familyto go to the doctor and also “to hold some meetings that will be very useful before returning.”
In addition to spending time with his family once he arrives in Oslo, Machado continues to do so an intensive agenda in the Norwegian capital.
On Thursday, the former MP visited the Norwegian Parliament and met with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre. In addition, this Friday she officially opened an exhibition about her fight for democracy and freedom in her country was received in audience by the kings of Norway and held several meetings.
With information from Ansa and EFE
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