{"id":340684,"date":"2025-12-10T08:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T08:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/340684\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T08:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T08:43:08","slug":"peace-prize-laureate-maria-corina-machado-will-not-attend-ceremony-nobel-institute-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/340684\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace Prize laureate Mar\u00eda Corina Machado will not attend ceremony, Nobel Institute says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mar\u00eda Corina Machado<\/a>, the Venezuelan opposition leader who was awarded this year\u2019s Nobel Peace Prize<\/a>, will not attend the ceremony in Oslo on Wednesday, the director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute said, adding that he did not know where she was.<\/p>\n

Machado was set to receive the award in the Norwegian capital at 1 p.m. local time (7 a.m. ET) in a ceremony attended by Norwegian royalty as well as Latin American leaders including Argentine President Javier Milei<\/a> and Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe is unfortunately not in Norway and will not stand on stage at Oslo City Hall at 1 p.m. when the ceremony starts,\u201d Kristian Berg Harpviken, the director of the institute and the permanent secretary of the award body, told Norwegian public broadcaster NRK, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n

Asked where she was, Harpviken said: \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Machado, 58, is barred from leaving Venezuela and has spent more than a year in hiding since President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/a> declared victory in an election last year that was widely criticized as rigged. She had been the opposition\u2019s original candidate against Maduro, but the government prevented her from running.<\/p>\n

A news conference where Machado was supposed to appear was canceled on Tuesday after a delay of several hours. The institute did not say whether the news conference, which laureates traditionally hold the day before the formal award ceremony, would be rescheduled.<\/p>\n

\u201cMachado has herself stated in interviews how challenging the journey to Oslo, Norway will be,\u201d it said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Harpviken said the ceremony would still go ahead and that Machado\u2019s daughter, Ana Corina Sosa Machado, would accept the award in her place.<\/p>\n

The Nobel Institute did not immediately reply to an emailed request for additional comment.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar\u00eda Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who was awarded this year\u2019s Nobel Peace Prize, will not attend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-340684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}