Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado , the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, made her first public appearance after 11 months in hiding due to "serious threats against her life" Thursday (December 11), emerging from a hotel balcony in Oslo, Norway, after making a daring escape from her home country.

“I want you all back in Venezuela,” Machado said to a crowd gathered outside the hotel, which chanted, “Freedom! Freedom!” as well as “President! President!” and sang Venezuela's national anthem after seeing her, according to the Associated Press .

Machado appeared hours after her daughter accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf, which recognized her attempted run against President Nicolás Maduro as keeping "the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darknes

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