WASHINGTON - OSLO, Norway — President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that U.S. forces had seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela and added, “other things are happening.”
Trump’s announcement comes as Nobel Peace Prize Laureate María Corina Machado, the leader of the Venezuelan opposition, was on her way to Oslo, Norway.
“She wants to live in a free Venezuela, and she will never give up on that purpose. That is why we all know, and I know that she will be back in Venezuela very soon,” Ana Corina Sosa, Machado’s daughter, said during the award ceremony on Wednesday in Oslo.
In a recorded phone call that the Nobel Prize committee published on YouTube, Machado said she was getting ready to board a plane after people had “risked their lives” to make her trip possible.
“I am very grateful to them, and this is a measure of what this recognition means to the Venezuelan people,” Machado said, according to the recording.
Jørgen Watne Frydnes, the chair of the Norwegian Nobel committee, denounced the Nicolás Maduro regime’s crimes against children during his speech.
On Tuesday, the U.S. military flew fighter jets over the Gulf of Venezuela after a series of fatal boat strikes in the southern Caribbean.
Machado, who has been in hiding under threat in Venezuela, has used live videos to participate in public events, but hasn’t made any in-person public appearances since she stood with a group of protesters on Jan. 9 in Caracas.
Reps. Maria Elvira Salazar and Carlos Gimenez were among the group of Machado’s supporters who were waiting for her arrival in Oslo.
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