Venezuela’s Machado will not receive Nobel Peace Prize in person, her whereabouts unknown
The Venezuelan opposition figure, who has been in hiding for over a year, will have her daughter accept the award in Norway
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado will not receive the Nobel Peace Prize in person at Wednesday’s award ceremony in Oslo, the director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute said on Wednesday, with her current whereabouts unknown.
Machado, 58, was due to receive the award at a ceremony at Oslo City Hall in the presence of King Harald, Queen Sonja and Latin American leaders including Argentine President Javier Milei and Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa.
The ceremony starts at 1pm (8pm Hong Kong time).
Machado was due to receive the award in defiance of a decade-long travel ban imposed by authorities in her home country and after spending more than a year in hiding.
“She is unfortunately not in Norway and will not stand on stage at Oslo City Hall at 1pm when the ceremony starts,” Kristian Berg Harpviken, the director of the institute and the permanent secretary of the award body, told broadcaster NRK.
Asked where she was, Harpviken said: “I don’t know”.
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