"This has turned Venezuela into the criminal hub of the Americas, she said, standing alongside Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere. What sustains the regime is a very powerful and strongly funded repression system. Where do those funds come from? Well, from drug trafficking, from the black market of oil, from arms trafficking and from human trafficking. We need to cut those flows."
"Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace laureate Maria Corina Machado has declared that authorities in her home country would have attempted everything possible to prevent her journey to Norway, after she emerged publicly for the first time in nearly a year. Machado greeted supporters from an Oslo hotel balcony in the early hours of Thursday following a high-risk exit from Venezuela, where she had been in hiding since January."
Maria Corina Machado emerged publicly after nearly a year in hiding and executed a high-risk exit from Venezuela to travel to Norway to collect the Nobel Peace Prize. The route reportedly involved navigating ten military checkpoints and crossing the Caribbean by fishing vessel. Machado denounced President Nicolás Maduro’s administration as deploying national resources to repress the population and claimed the country has been effectively invaded by Russian and Iranian agents and drug cartels, turning Venezuela into a criminal hub. She identified drug trafficking, black-market oil, arms trafficking and human trafficking as funding sources and urged cutting those flows. The trip reunited her with family and her daughter accepted the prize on her behalf.
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