Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Colina Machado has left Oslo, her international relations coordinator Pedro Urturtu Noceri wrote in a post on X.
“As confirmed by the Prime Minister of Norway, she is no longer in Oslo,” Noseri’s post read. “She is feeling well and has been under the care of specialists over the past few days in hopes of making a speedy and complete recovery.”
CNN is trying to find out where Machado traveled. Machado is recovering from a spinal fracture sustained last week while leaving Venezuela on a secret trip to Norway to accept the Nobel Prize.
Machado, one of the most critical voices of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, has been in hiding for 11 months in Venezuela out of fear for his life and freedom.
But last week she left the shelter and began the difficult and dangerous journey to Oslo. She did not attend Wednesday morning’s ceremony, where her daughter accepted the award on her behalf, but appeared in public the following day.
U.S. Special Forces veteran Brian Stern, founder of the Gray Bull Rescue Foundation, said his rescue team rescued the Nobel Prize winner from Venezuela. Stern told CNN the extraction lasted nearly 16 hours, mostly at night and in rough seas.
Machado arrived in Norway on December 10, after traveling by boat and private jet. There he met his daughter and made his first public appearance in almost a year, greeting a crowd from the balcony of Oslo’s Grand Hotel.
“In general, this is the most difficult, the most high-profile, the most sensitive operation that we have undertaken,” Stern said, adding that he had implored Machado not to return to Venezuela.
Machado previously said he intended to return to his home country.
