Source: Reuters
“Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado said she planned to take her award back to Venezuela, but declined to say on Thursday when she would return to her home country after leaving in great secrecy to receive the honour. The 58-year-old engineer had secretly left Venezuela for Oslo in defiance of a decade-long travel ban imposed by authorities and after spending more than a year in hiding. ‘I came to receive the prize on behalf of the Venezuelan people and I will take it back to Venezuela at the correct moment,’ she told reporters at Norway’s parliament, dressed in white, declining to say when this would be. When Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize in October, she dedicated it in part to U.S. President Donald Trump, who has said he himself deserved the honour.” (12/11/25)