Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado departed Venezuela by boat on Tuesday for the Caribbean island of Curaçao en route to Oslo, Norway, where her daughter will arrive later today to represent her at the ceremony, according to a Wall Street Journal report shared by @WSJForero over the past 59 minutes. The Wall Street Journal article, linked in the X post, states that a Nobel official confirmed Machado will not receive the prize in person. This follows her phone call confirmation earlier on Dec. 10 reported between 12:15 p.m. and 1:15 p.m. UTC, where she stated she boarded a flight to Oslo after many risked their lives to enable her travel, per @ConflictsW. Machado plans to join her family, including children not seen in two years, and Venezuelan-Norwegians in Oslo upon arrival for activities in the coming days, though not the ceremony itself, as she noted in the prior phone call. The Norwegian Nobel Committee chair praised her stance on dialogue and justice in a statement shared by @OrlvndoA.
