Venezuela's opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said on Monday that she will only be able to travel to Oslo (Norway) in December to collect the Nobel Peace Prize that was awarded to her on Friday, if Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro leaves power power.

According to the opposition leader, who gave an interview to the Norwegian newspaper 'Dagens Naeringsliv' and which was picked up this Monday by the Norwegian news agency 'NTB', so that she can travel to the capital of the Nordic country "Venezuela must be free."

Maria Corina Machado says she will be able to collect the Nobel Prize in Oslo if Maduro leaves power

The Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said this Monday that she will only be able to travel to Oslo (Norway) in December to collect the Nobel Peace Prize that was awarded to her on Friday, if the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, leaves power.

According to the opposition leader in an interview with the Norwegian newspaper 'Dagens Naeringsliv', picked up this Monday by the Norwegian news agency 'NTB', so that she can travel to the capital of the Nordic country "Venezuela must be free."

"As long as Maduro is in power power, I can't leave the place where I'm hiding because there are direct threats against my life," Machado told the Norwegian newspaper.

The award "has a very important impact"

"I have learned to live day to day, and the Venezuelan people are doing everything in their power" for their future, the political leader added.

On Friday, Maria Corina Machado was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize "for her tireless work in promoting the democratic rights of the Venezuelan people and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy," the Norwegian Nobel Committee, based in Oslo, announced.

Machado said on Sunday that receiving the award "has a very important impact on both Venezuelans and the regime itself," which she "realizes," she added,that the “entire world legitimizes” the opposition struggle while Maduro “is absolutely isolated and has his days numbered.”

Since 2024, Machado has been claiming what she insists was the victory of opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, currently exiled in Spain, in the presidential elections on July 28 of that year.

According to her and the largest opposition coalition, the Democratic Unitary Platform, Gonzalez Urrutia was the winner of this contest, despite the fact that the electoral body, controlled by rectors close to Chavismo, proclaimed Maduro reelected president.