Berlin.- Venezuela’s opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said she will only be able to travel to Oslo (Norway) in December to receive the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to her on Friday if Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro is no longer in power.
According to the opponent in an interview with the Norwegian newspaper ‘Dagens Naeringsliv’, reported this Monday by the Norwegian news agency ‘NTB’, for her to be able to travel to the capital of the Nordic country “Venezuela must be free”.
“As long as Maduro is in power, I cannot leave the place where I am hiding because there are direct threats against my life,” Machado said.
On Friday, María Corina Machado was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize “for her tireless work in promoting the democratic rights of the Venezuelan people and for her fight to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy,” according to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, based in Oslo.
Machado asserted this Sunday that having received the award “has a very important impact both on Venezuelans and on the regime itself”, which “realizes”, she added, that the “whole world legitimizes” the opposition’s struggle while Maduro “is absolutely isolated and his days are numbered”.
Since 2024, Machado claims what he insists was the victory of opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia, currently exiled in Spain, in the presidential elections of July 28 of that year.
According to her and the largest opposition coalition, Democratic Unity Platform, González Urrutia was the winner of this contest, despite the fact that the electoral body, controlled by rectors close to Chavismo, proclaimed Maduro re-elected as president.
