A Crowds of Venezuelans gathered in more than 80 cities around the world under the motto “The Nobel Prize is ours” to support Maria Corina Machadoahead of the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony to the opposition leader, which will take place on December 10 in Oslo, Norway and will be attended by Javier Milei.
In Buenos Aires the call for “March for Peace and Freedom” took place in front of the Law Faculty Former Security Minister and current Senator Patricia Bullrich took part. Other Argentine cities and provinces that joined were La Plata, Rosario, Mendoza, Córdoba, Río Gallegos and Puerto Madryn.
The initiative covered more than 20 countries in America and Europe. They only took part in South America Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.
After weeks of uncertainty, Machado, who remains underground in Venezuela, confirmed he will travel to Norway next week to accept his award. “I had contact with Ms. Machado this evening He confirmed that he will be in Oslo “Given the security situation, we cannot provide any further details about the date and its expiry,” Nobel Institute director Kristian Berg Harpviken told AFP.
Before the mobilization, Machado appeared on social networks with a message: “Now all these years of struggle and the dignity of the Venezuelan people have been recognized with the Nobel Peace Prize. It is a recognition that calls us to be even more determined to complete the task and achieve the freedom of Venezuela.”
“The Nobel Prize is a recognition of our democratic struggle, our civic organization, our ability to continue to withstand oppression and our belief that Venezuela was born free and our families were born to live together,” he emphasized. And he added: “While the regime tries to hide this incredible achievementThis recognition that the whole world gives us, we will light a candle in the most important cities of the world.
The call came on the same day that the Death of opponent Alfredo Díaz in prison. The former governor of Nueva Esparta has been detained and isolated in El Helicoide, the headquarters of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Sebin), since November 2024.
Machado and Edmundo González Urrutia, Nicolás Maduro’s rival in the last presidential election, warned in a joint statement that the death of Alfredo Díaz, the former governor of Nueva Esparta, was a “reveal.”ongoing pattern of state repression“.
“His integrity and his life were the exclusive responsibility of those who arbitrarily abducted him from a headquarters that has been widely denounced by international organizations as a systematic center for torture and other human rights violations. Therefore, this cannot be treated as an ordinary death; it is a crime that is the responsibility of the regime.”
Díaz’s death “adds to an alarming and painful chain of deaths of political prisoners held in connection with terrorism.” Repression after the July 28 election“adds the statement. The list includes Edwin Santos; Jesús Martínez; Lindomar Amaro; Jesús Rafael Álvarez; Osgual González; and Reinaldo Araujo.