{"id":436947,"date":"2025-12-10T03:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T03:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/436947\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T03:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T03:37:16","slug":"event-with-venezuelas-machado-called-off-ahead-of-nobel-peace-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/436947\/","title":{"rendered":"Event with Venezuela’s Machado called off ahead of Nobel Peace ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"

OSLO, Norway (AP) \u2014 A planned news conference on Tuesday by Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Mar\u00eda Corina Machado<\/a> was canceled after a several-hour delay, a day before the award ceremony in Oslo.<\/p>\n

Machado, who last appeared in public 11 months ago, had been due to hold a traditional news conference the day before the formal award ceremony. But the lunchtime event was delayed without explanation, until the Norwegian Nobel Institute said three hours after the scheduled time that \u201cit will not take place today.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cMar\u00eda Corina Machado has herself stated in interviews how challenging the journey to Oslo, Norway, will be,\u201d the institute said in an email. \u201cWe therefore cannot at this point provide any further information about when and how she will arrive for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony.\u201d<\/p>\n

The institute did not specify whether the news conference would take place at a later point.<\/p>\n

Machado\u2019s spokesperson did not immediately respond to questions about the opposition leader\u2019s location and planned attendance at Wednesday\u2019s ceremony.<\/p>\n

The 58-year-old\u2019s win for her struggle to achieve a democratic transition in her South American nation was announced on Oct. 10<\/a>, and she was described as a woman \u201cwho keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.\u201d <\/p>\n

Machado won the opposition\u2019s primary election and intended to run against President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/a> in last year\u2019s presidential election, but the government barred her from running for office. Retired diplomat Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez<\/a> took her place.<\/p>\n

The lead-up to the July 28, 2024, election saw widespread repression, including disqualifications, arrests and human rights violations. That increased after the country\u2019s National Electoral Council, which is stacked with Maduro loyalists, declared the incumbent the winner despite credible evidence to the contrary.<\/p>\n

Gonz\u00e1lez sought asylum in Spain last year after a Venezuelan court issued a warrant for his arrest. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Machado went into hiding and has not been seen in public since Jan. 9, when she was briefly detained after joining supporters in a protest in Caracas, Venezuela\u2019s capital. The following day, Maduro was sworn in for a third six-year term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OSLO, Norway (AP) \u2014 A planned news conference on Tuesday by Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":436948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[110281,103603,90,57,103599,50,92550,70078,180229,80,128,14513,103,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-436947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-caracas","9":"tag-edmundo-gonzlez","10":"tag-elections","11":"tag-general-news","12":"tag-maria-corina-machado","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-nicolas-maduro","15":"tag-norway-government","16":"tag-oslo","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-spain","19":"tag-venezuela-government","20":"tag-world","21":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115693187624141135","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}