CARACAS.- The President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduroquestioned on Monday the fracture The Maria Corina Machadoher country’s Nobel Peace Prize winner, said she suffered during her frantic journey from hiding to Oslo to accept the award. The regime opponent’s journey included one trip by land – disguised to deceive agents before they reached a coastal town – another by sea and a third by air.
In his speech, Maduro thanked Chavista supporters for the street mobilizations, which he described as a response to alleged “American aggression,” and criticized Machado’s comments in Oslo, where he denounced foreign and criminal infiltration in Venezuela.
“María Corina Machado says that she has a broken vertebra, what is broken is her brain and her soul, because she is one demonHe hates Venezuela, hates you“Maduro made the comments during the broadcast of his television show. He also accused them of calling for military intervention from abroad.
Previously, the Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado hairhad described the details of Machado’s departure from Venezuela as an “extravagant story.” “They are trying to (…) place and decorate to give it a mythical character,” he said during a press conference of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (Psuv) in Caracas.
Machado traveled to Oslo after months in hiding in Venezuela after denouncing fraud in the 2024 presidential election, in which Maduro was declared the winner for the third consecutive time. Edmundo González Urrutia, opposition candidate, went into exile in Spain after the election results.
Machado said he feared for his life on the dangerous journey to leave his country and arrive in Norway last Wednesday to accept the Nobel Prize. Part of the trip included a boat trip to Curacao and a private flight with a stopover in the USA.
According to the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten, Machado suffered the injury during part of the transfer in a small fishing boat in rough seas.. “It was dangerous. It was frightening. The sea conditions were ideal for us, but it certainly wasn’t water you wanted to be in… the higher the waves, the harder it is for radar to detect. That’s how it works,” said Bryan Stern, director of the company that conducted the “extraction” of the opposition leader, in an interview with CBS News.
The Venezuelan opposition leader received the Nobel Peace Prize for her fight for a “just and peaceful transition” to restore democracy in Venezuela.
With information from AFP and ANSA.
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