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Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado stated this Thursday that her country "has already been invaded" by Russian agents, Iranians, terrorist groups, and cartels that operate freely in collusion with the "regime" of Nicolás Maduro, which is why she urged cutting off the flow of funding that allows a very powerful system of repression to be sustained.
"I have high hopes that Venezuela will be free."
Corona Machado also declared in a press conference with the Norwegian Prime Minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, that she has high hopes that Venezuela will be "free" and that it can welcome back all Venezuelans "who have had to flee the country".
The Venezuelan opposition leader thanked the help of those people who "risked their lives" so that she could come out of hiding in Venezuela and arrive in Oslo, in what she has described as "a rather extraordinary experience".
"I want to take this opportunity to thank all those men and women who risked their lives so that I could be here today. Some day I will be able to tell you about it —I don't want to put them at risk now, of course," he said.
"It was quite an experience, but it was worth being here with you, telling the world what is happening in Venezuela, what it means to you as Norwegians and as Europeans, and from all over and why Venezuela matters to the world."
