{"id":437711,"date":"2025-12-10T11:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T11:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/437711\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T11:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T11:27:10","slug":"venezuelan-opposition-leader-maria-corina-machado-will-miss-nobel-peace-prize-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/437711\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelan opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado will miss Nobel Peace Prize ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"

OSLO, Norway (AP) \u2014 Venezuelan opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado<\/a> will miss the ceremony to award her the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Wednesday, the head of the Norwegian Nobel Institute said.<\/p>\n

Machado last appeared in public 11 months ago. Nobel Institute director Kristian Berg Harpviken told public broadcaster NRK the Venezuelan opposition leader\u2019s daughter will accept the prize on Machado\u2019s behalf. He later told the broadcaster that Machado was expected in Oslo during the day \u2014 but \u201cunfortunately, she won\u2019t arrive in time to attend today\u2019s ceremony or other events.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe confirm that she will not attend the Nobel ceremony, but we are optimistic about her presence on the rest of the day\u2019s agenda,\u201d said Machado\u2019s spokesperson, Claudia Macero. She did not give information on Machado\u2019s current location.<\/p>\n

Prominent Latin American figures planned to attend Wednesday\u2019s ceremony in a signal of solidarity with Machado, including Argentine President Javier Milei, Ecuador\u2019s President Daniel Noboa, Panama\u2019s President Jos\u00e9 Ra\u00fal Mulino and Paraguayan President Santiago Pe\u00f1a.<\/p>\n

Machado has been living in 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. <\/p>\n

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

Machado won an opposition primary election and intended to challenge 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 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.<\/p>\n

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

U.N. human rights officials and many independent rights groups<\/a> have expressed concerns about the situation in Venezuela, and called for Maduro to be held accountable for the crackdown on dissent.<\/p>\n

Five past Nobel Peace Prize laureates were detained or imprisoned at the time of the award, according to the prize\u2019s official website, most recently Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi<\/a> in 2023 and Belarusian human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski<\/a> in 2022. <\/p>\n

The others were Liu Xiaobo of China in 2010, Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar in 1991 and Carl von Ossietzky of Germany in 1935.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a long tradition that when a Peace Prize laureate cannot be present, close family members represent them,\u201d Harpviken said. \u201cThat happened with Narges Mohammadi, and with Ales Bialiatski; both were imprisoned at the time. And the same will happen with Maria Corina Machado today. The daughter will deliver the statement her mother has written.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gustavo Tovar-Arroyo, a Venezuelan human rights activist who was himself forced to flee into exile in 2012, said Machado\u2019s supporters \u201cdid the best for her to be here as she deserves. But we knew the risk.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that they are \u201cdisappointed that she cannot be in the ceremony, but this is part of what we do when we fight against a dictatorship, a tyranny or a criminal regime. So we are used to it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OSLO, Norway (AP) \u2014 Venezuelan opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado will miss the ceremony to award her the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":437712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[202403,3881,190113,202406,202407,110874,61348,103603,90,57,202405,118,24720,202402,202404,103599,21874,50,92550,180229,1608,1609,80,202401,32322,14513,103,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-437711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-ales-bialiatski","9":"tag-ap-top-news","10":"tag-aung-san-suu-kyi","11":"tag-carl-von-ossietzky","12":"tag-claudia-macero","13":"tag-daniel-noboa","14":"tag-ecuador","15":"tag-edmundo-gonzlez","16":"tag-elections","17":"tag-general-news","18":"tag-gustavo-tovar-arroyo","19":"tag-human-rights","20":"tag-javier-milei","21":"tag-kristian-berg-harpviken","22":"tag-liu-xiaobo","23":"tag-maria-corina-machado","24":"tag-narges-mohammadi","25":"tag-news","26":"tag-nicolas-maduro","27":"tag-oslo","28":"tag-panama","29":"tag-panama-city","30":"tag-politics","31":"tag-santiago-pena","32":"tag-venezuela","33":"tag-venezuela-government","34":"tag-world","35":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115695036053199590","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437711","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=437711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}