Venezuelans stood divided Wednesday on the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to opposition leader Maria Corina Machado and on whether she should return home from Oslo.

Supporters were hopeful she will come back to continue leading the political resistance to President Nicolas Maduro, whose last two re-elections were widely dismissed as fraudulent.

But detractors labeled her a traitor for backing US actions against Maduro's regime, and said she would be better off in exile.

Machado, who had been in hiding in Venezuela for over a year after Maduro's disputed July 2024 re-election, traveled to Norway but missed the Nobel ceremony.

Her daughter Ana Corina Sosa Machado accepted the peace prize on her behalf Wednesday.

Nobel officials said Machado was "safe" and would reach Oslo by Thursday at the

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