María Corina Machado's press team announced on December 10, 2025, that the Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner will speak from the balcony of the Grand Hotel in Oslo at 2:00 a.m. Norwegian time (1:00 a.m. UTC, 9:00 p.m. Caracas time), according to an X post by Gbastidas shared in the 29-minute reporting window ending at 11:15 p.m. UTC. This anticipated address follows the US-facilitated escape of Machado from Venezuela on a boat hours before the seizure of the 'The Skipper' oil tanker off the country's coast earlier on December 10, as reported by The Wall Street Journal during the previous reporting window. The development comes amid heightened US enforcement actions against Venezuelan oil shipments, including the FBI, Homeland Security Investigations, and Coast Guard operation targeting 'The Skipper' for transporting sanctioned oil linked to Iran and foreign terrorist organizations, per an official statement shared by Bloomberg reporter Jennifer Jacobs.
