María Corina Machado Appears in Norway After Missing Nobel Ceremony

Hours after missing the ceremony in Norway’s capital that awarded her the Nobel Peace Prize, the Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado appeared in the city’s streets after midnight on Thursday, greeting a cheering crowd.
She appeared on the balcony of the historic Grand Hotel in Oslo, the capital, around 2:30 a.m., waving to journalists and supporters who had been waiting for hours. People in the crowd started to sing the Venezuelan national anthem. Ms. Machado emerged from the hotel and approached the crowd, climbing over a metal barrier to embrace supporters and grasp their hands.
Ms. Machado’s decision to leave Venezuela, after more than a year in hiding, has thrust her back into the global spotlight and escalated the intensifying standoff between President Trump and Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s authoritarian president. She was expected to hold a news conference in Oslo later on Thursday.
In an audio message published by the Nobel Peace Prize committee on Wednesday, Ms. Machado said she had left Venezuela and was traveling to Oslo to participate in the day’s festivities surrounding the awarding of the prize. But she arrived too late to attend the ceremony, at which her daughter, Ana Corina Sosa, accepted the Nobel on her behalf.
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