Nobel Winner Secretly Left Venezuela for Oslo, Hit Bad Weather

Jorgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, left, and Ana Corina Sosa Machado, daughter of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, right, at the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize presentation ceremony.Photographer: Naina Helén Jåma/Bloomberg

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By Eric Martin and Heidi Taksdal Skjeseth

December 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM UTC

Updated on

December 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM UTC

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Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado secretly left Venezuela in a bid to get to Oslo in time to accept her award but was forced to miss the ceremony because bad weather delayed her journey, a person familiar with the matter said.