A few days after Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize, President Nicolas Maduro directed to shut of Venezuela’s embassy in Norway, expressing their disapproval of the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s decision to recognise her work for democracy. The country’s government has also announced that it would close its embassy in Australia and would open new diplomatic missions in Zimbabwe and Burkina Faso, in Africa, to “strengthen ties with the Global South.”

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Why is Venezuela shutting down its embassy in Norway?

Venezuela's foreign ministry, in a statement on Instagram, said that the Maduro government has asked its embassy in Norway's capital,

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