The Venezuelan opposition Maria Corina MachadoNobel Peace Prize laureate, has suffered a spinal fracture since leaving Venezuela last week, her spokesperson announced on Monday.
“The vertebral fracture is confirmed,” he said. Claudia Macero in reference to an article … published in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten. “For the moment, no additional information will be given compared to what appears in the article,” he added.
According to the newspaper, the fracture occurred when They took her on a small fishing boatwith rough seas. The injury was diagnosed at Ullevål University Hospital in Oslo, Aftenposten says.
The 58-year-old opponent arrived in Oslo early Thursday morning, too late to attend the awards ceremony, which was picked up by her daughter Ana Corina Sosa. Since his arrival in Norway, he has repeatedly stated that I wanted to go to the doctorwithout explaining why.
His fracture did not prevent him from crossing a barrier to greet his supporters in the Norwegian capital, during his first public appearance in the Nordic country.
At the risk of being declared a fugitive in her country, where she lived in hiding, Machado left Venezuela under conditions that remained mysterious.
Operation “Golden Dynamite”
According to Brian SternAn American veteran who founded a company to keep foreigners out of dangerous areas, his departure from the South American country was possible thanks to a bizarre operation, called “Golden Dynamite”.
According to Stern, Machado left Caracas in disguise and wearing a wig, and went to a beach in the north of the country.
Already on the beach, the boat with which he was to escape – an old fishing boat chosen so as not to arouse suspicion and not expose itself to American bombings in the Caribbean Sea against ships which, according to Washington, were carrying drugs – was damaged.
He finally managed to board but the GPS didn’t work. Numb from the cold and soaked, she made it to another boat, which included Bryan Stern. On board this ship she arrived in Curaçao, from where she boarded a private plane which took her to Oslo, after a stopover in the United States.
“There were times when I felt that there was a real risk to my life, and it was also a very spiritual moment because in the end I just felt that I was in the hands of God,” Machado said Friday in Oslo.
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