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The Colombian Chancellor, Rosa Villavicencio, assured that the opposition figure María Corina Machado "should be able to go and collect" the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway, although she considered that "other people perhaps had more merit" to receive it.
"I believe she should be able to go and collect the prize. We have even said that if she required asylum in Colombia, it would be granted," said the Colombian Foreign Minister today at the EFE-Casa de América Tribune.
The award ceremony in Oslo will be on December 10th in a ceremony to which, according to the Nobel committee, the Venezuelan woman will attend, who is currently in hiding in her country.
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Villavicencio assured that they cannot "interfere in the internal politics of Venezuela", a country with which the government of Gustavo Petro re-established relations and with which it shares 2,500 kilometers of border, but denounced the detention without "guarantee" of about twenty people, among whom there are also Colombian citizens. But when asked about her opinion on the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to opposition leader María Corina Machado, the chancellor asserted that "other people perhaps had more merit for it", but it is a decision they do not question. Furthermore, when asked about what she thinks of Machado encouraging the intervention of the United States in Venezuela in some intervention, following the current operations in the Caribbean, the high diplomat estimated: "Faced with a Nobel Peace Prize winner inviting greater aggressions, there is nothing to say."
