The Nobel Institute announced this on Tuesday María Corina Machado travels to Oslo but he won’t make it to the Nobel Prize ceremony this Wednesday.
Shortly before that, the institution that awards the Nobel Prize He said he did not know where the laureate was this year with that of peace, the leader of the Venezuelan opposition, María Corina Machado.
The award ceremony was given to his daughter. Machado has been living in secret since August 2024 and has not appeared in public for eleven months.
“Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado did her utmost to attend today’s ceremony. A journey in a situation of extreme danger. Even if you are unable to attend the ceremony or today’s events, we are very pleased to confirm this to you He is fine and will be with us in Oslo,” the Nobel Institute announced in a statement on Tuesday.
Since October, when the award was announced, it has been a mystery whether Machado would be able to travel to Oslo.
“I just don’t know exactly where it is,” said Kristian Berg Harpviken, director of the Nobel Institute. “It will be her daughter Ana Corina Machado who will receive the award the award in his mother’s name,” he added.
Over the weekend, the Nobel Institute announced that Machado would accept the award personallyendowed with a gold medal, a diploma and 1.2 million dollars. He also organized a press conference and interviews with various international media that were ultimately canceled.
Relatives and allies of Machado in Oslo told AFP they hoped to see her on Tuesday in Oslo, where dozens of exiled Venezuelans and the presidents of Argentina, Panama, Ecuador and Paraguay had traveled.
Her former campaign manager Magalli Meda made it clear on Tuesday that the opposition He had already left Venezuela and will return.
“How can we believe that María Corina will not return and remain in exile,” Meda said in a statement published in X.
The Nobel Prize ceremony is scheduled for 1 p.m. (9:00 a.m. in Argentina) in the municipality of Oslo. He received the award not only from his mother, but also Ana Corina Machado will also speak “The speech that María Corina wrote herself,” said the director of the institute.
During the Nobel Peace Prize will be delivered in Oslo, The awards in literature, medicine, physics, chemistry and economics are awarded in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden.
In October, the Nobel Committee awarded the award to the trained engineer for her work toward “a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy” in Venezuela.
Machado went into hiding after those elections, which gave Nicolás Maduro a third term. These election results They have not been recognized by the United States, the European Union and several Latin American countries.
This is what the opposition leader Maduro claims He stole the election from his candidateEdmundo González Urrutia, and published copies of the votes cast in the voting machines as evidence of fraud. Chavismo denies the allegations.
While she is praised for her commitment to democracy in Venezuela, her opponents accuse her of her ideological affinity with US President Donald Trump, to whom she dedicated her Nobel Prize.
The awards ceremony coincides with a major US military operation in the Caribbean and US attacks on alleged “drug boats” that left 87 people dead.
For his part, Maduro assures that the real aim of these operations is to overthrow him and seize Venezuela’s oil reserves.
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