From Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado not expected to attend Nobel Peace Prize ceremony
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Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado waves from atop a truck during the closing election campaign rally for presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez in Caracas, Venezuela, July 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado will not be present to accept her Nobel Peace Prize award in Oslo today, the Nobel Institute tells AFP.
“She is not coming to the ceremony,” Nobel Institute spokesperson Erik Aasheim says ahead of the event. Machado, 58, lives in hiding and it was not known ahead of the ceremony whether she had managed to leave Venezuela.
Machado spoke to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after she was awarded the prize and told him that she understood Israel’s struggle against the Iranian axis of evil, which she apparently noted was working against both Israel and the people of Venezuela, according to a statement from the premier’s office.
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