Machado left Venezuela at a critical point in the country’s protracted crisis, with the Trump administration carrying out deadly military operations in the Caribbean and threatening repeatedly to strike Venezuelan soil. The White House has said the operations, which have killed more than 80 people, are meant to stop the flow of drugs into the U.S.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado appears in Oslo after high-risk escape from Venezuela, says "¡Oslo, aquí estoy!"

The Nobel Institute said the Venezuelan opposition leader, who had been in hiding since last year’s elections, will be coming to Oslo after undertaking a journey “of extreme danger.”

Ana Corina Sosa Machado read a speech prepared by her mother, María Corina Machado, that said, “Freedom is not something we wait for, but something we become.”