After escaping her country in secret, Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado said Thursday that she received help from the United States government to leave hiding in Venezuela and collect her award .

Machado, 58, credited President Donald Trump's "decisive" actions in making the Venezuelan regime "weaker than ever," her latest show of support for the White House as it builds military pressure against Caracas. And she vowed she would do her best to return home to end the “tyranny” of President Nicolás Maduro.

“Yes, we did get support from the United States’ government," Machado told a news conference in Oslo, Norway, speaking about the journey from her homeland that was fraught with risk and shrouded in secrecy.

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