AILSA CHANG, HOST:

Better late than never - that was the message from the Nobel Peace Prize committee today for this year's winner who did not quite make it to Norway for today's ceremony. Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado had been hiding inside Venezuela to avoid being arrested by her country's authoritarian regime. On her way to Oslo, she got delayed, as she reportedly escaped her country on a secret boat trip. As John Otis reports, her troubles in getting to Norway only dramatized her message that Venezuela is in dire need of regime change.

JOHN OTIS, BYLINE: Maria Corina Machado was supposed to arrive in Oslo yesterday where Latin American presidents, Venezuelan politicians and her family had gathered for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, but she was nowhere to be found

See Full Page