Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado appeared in downtown Oslo in the early hours of Thursday morning after a high-risk escape from Venezuela that involved disguises, a fishing boat and a private jet, according to a detailed account in The Wall Street Journal .

Machado, 58, appeared on the balcony of Oslo’s historic Grand Hotel around 2:30 a.m. local time Thursday, greeting cheering supporters just hours after her daughter accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf because she had missed the official ceremony.

The Nobel Committee previously cited her “tireless work promoting democratic rights” against President Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarian government.

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