The Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate reappears in Norway after a year in hiding.

BarcelonaVenezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado appeared on the balcony of the Grand Hotel in Oslo early this morning after arriving in the Norwegian capital to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. After a year in hiding, she greeted her supporters in the early hours, visibly tired but smiling, and sang her country's national anthem with her hand on her heart, before approaching the dozens of Venezuelans gathered outside to welcome her. However, she did not deliver any speech, not even a brief one; a gesture she initially planned to make in a few hours at a joint press conference with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre. Amid cell phones recording her and shouts of "Long live!", Machado approached the barriers erected by Norwegian police for security reasons, and on several occasions climbed them to get even closer to her supporters, shaking their hands, blowing kisses, and even...

His arrival in Oslo has been shrouded in uncertainty. Last weekend, he assured the Nobel Institute that he would be in Oslo for Wednesday's Nobel Prize ceremony. However, on the eve of the solemn event, he was unable to participate in the traditional press conference for the laureates, as planned, nor did he arrive in time at Oslo City Hall to collect the prize. That same Wednesday, in a telephone conversation from an undisclosed location with Frydnes, he said he was already "on his way to Oslo" and that, as soon as he arrived, he would be able to embrace his entire family: "And so many Venezuelans and Norwegians I know who share our struggle and our effort," he added. His daughter, Ana Corina Sosa, was already waiting for him in Oslo. On Wednesday, she delivered the Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech on behalf of the mother.–, His two children, his sister, and his mother.

Odyssey to Oslo

Machado's journey to Oslo was a true odyssey. According to several analysts cited by the EFE news agency, the itinerary began on Tuesday with a sea voyage from Venezuela to Curaçao and was completed with a long flight of nearly 9,000 kilometers to the Norwegian capital, with a stopover in the United States. The 58-year-old opposition leader landed in Oslo early this morning aboard a private plane that, according to flight tracking platforms FlightRadar24 and FlightAware, had departed earlier from Curaçao, one of the islands of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean, located just 6,000 kilometers from the US. The plane, with a capacity for thirteen passengers, is registered in Mexico, based at the Santiago de Querétaro International Airport, and operated by JetVip Business Aviation. To pick up Machado, the aircraft departed on Tuesday from Miami's Opa-locka Executive Airport in Florida (USA), bound for Hato International Airport in Willemstad, the capital of Curaçao, where it landed that evening. From there, according to tracking platforms, the plane took off on Wednesday at 6:42 a.m. local time (10:42 GMT) for a four-hour and forty-three-minute flight to Bangor International Airport in Maine (USA), where it made a technical stop. The final leg, a six-hour and twenty-four-minute flight between Bangor and Oslo Gardermoen Airport, concluded shortly before midnight.