Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who won the Nobel Peace Prize 2025, will be considered a “fugitive" if she emerges from hiding to collect the honour in Norway, Venezuela’s attorney general told AFP .

Machado had earlier expressed interest in attending the ceremony, which will be held in Oslo on December 10. “By being outside Venezuela and having numerous criminal investigations, she is considered a fugitive," Venezuela’s Attorney General Tarek William Saab said, adding that Machado was accused of “acts of conspiracy, incitement of hatred, terrorism".

Machado, 58, known as Venezuela’s ‘Iron Lady’, is a former presidential candidate and is widely seen as a unifying figure in Venezuela’s once-divided opposition. She won

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