Venezuela’s Machado Says She Plans to Return and Hide Soon (1)

December 11, 2025, 12:36 PM UTC

Venezuelan dissident María Corina Machado said she plans to ultimately go back home and disappear from authorities to continue fighting for democracy.

Speaking at a news conference in Oslo on Thursday, after emerging in the Norwegian capital in the early hours, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate said she will return “as soon as possible.”

“I will return to Venezuela when there are enough conditions in terms of security, it doesn’t depend on the regime’s exit,” Machado said.

“When I go back, there are two possibilities,” she told journalists earlier the same day. “There’s no certainty where the regime will be ...

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