Venezuelan Nobel laureate reunited with family after perilous journey to receive prize
by Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro and Miranda Bryant from World news | The Guardian on (#722ZQ)
Maria Corina Machado thanks those who risked their lives to help her travel to Oslo and says she is hopeful Venezuela will be free'
Venezuela's best-known opposition leader, the Nobel peace prize winner Maria Corina Machado, said her arrival in Oslo marked a historic turning point" that showed Venezuelans the world is with them".
Machado, who was forced into hiding in Venezuela by the country's dictator, Nicolas Maduro, slipped out of her authoritarian homeland by boat in order to travel to Norway to collect her prize.
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