María Corina Machado, the recent recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, has plans to return her award to her homeland of Venezuela. Despite declining to specify when the return will occur, her departure for Oslo was shrouded in secrecy. Machado arrived in Norway just after the official ceremony, missing the formal portion of the event.

At 58, the engineer defied a years-long travel ban to receive the award, symbolizing her commitment to the Venezuelan people from whom she's been cryptically absent for over a year. "I've accepted this prize on behalf of the Venezuelan populace and will take it back at the right time," she declared in the Norwegian Parliament, opting for discretion as to her itinerary. Machado was poised to converse with Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere later that sam

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