Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, banned from leaving her own country by the socialist Maduro regime, will not receive the Nobel Peace Prize in person on Wednesday, the Norwegian Nobel Institute said.

“She is unfortunately not in Norway and will not stand on stage at Oslo City Hall at 01:00 p.m. when the ceremony starts,” Norwegian Nobel Institute director Kristian Berg Harpviken reportedly told Norway’s NRK on Wednesday.

Machado , a former lawmaker and the head of Venezuela’s only mainstream center-right party Vente Venezuela, has been in hiding at an undisclosed location in Venezuela since the aftermath of the fraudulent July 2024 presidential election, facing threats of arrest by the Maduro regime on dubious “acts of conspiracy, incitement to hatred,” and “te

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