On this NTB Scanpix photograph, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado arrives at Oslo Airport in Gardermoen, Norway, Dec. 10. AP-Yonhap
OSLO — After greater than a yr largely spent in hiding and in defiance of a decade-long journey ban, Venezuelan opposition chief Maria Corina Machado arrived in Norway on Thursday, hours after a ceremony to award her the Nobel Peace Prize.
The pinnacle of the Norwegian Nobel Committee confirmed Machado had arrived.
Machado, 58, has been banned by the federal government of President Nicolas Maduro from leaving Venezuela since 2014, and an acceptance speech was delivered on Wednesday in her absence by her daughter.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the prize to Machado for her struggle towards what it referred to as a dictatorship.
