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Freedom for Venezuela coming ‘soon’, says opposition leader

Emerging from hiding for Nobel Peace Prize, María Corina Machado quietly backs US pressure on Maduro regime
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Colombia’s Marxist ELN guerrillas operate from bases inside Venezuela and are involved in cocaine smuggling, according to US and Colombian officials."}],[{"start":110.69,"text":"Washington on Thursday imposed sanctions on three nephews of Maduro’s wife, alongside a Panamanian businessman, six companies and six Venezuela-flagged ships accused of moving Venezuelan crude."}],[{"start":124.87,"text":"Machado, who has lived in a secret location inside Venezuela for the past 16 months to evade the regime’s security forces, slipped out of the country in disguise to travel to Oslo, where she missed the Nobel Prize ceremony but arrived early on Thursday to an enthusiastic welcome."}],[{"start":null,"text":""}],[{"start":147.02,"text":"The head of the Nobel Committee, Jørgen Watne Frydnes, called on Maduro to resign on Wednesday, in unusually pointed public comments. Machado also met Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, who offered his support to her struggle."}],[{"start":163.16000000000003,"text":"But the prize has also caused some controversy in Norway, with two leftwing parties criticising the award and Machado’s seeming acceptance of US pressure on Maduro. Reporters estimated several hundred people protested against Machado’s prize in central Oslo on Thursday."}],[{"start":185.10000000000002,"text":"Machado landed just after midnight in Oslo, where she greeted her three children for the first time in almost two years after a long and perilous escape from her country."}],[{"start":196.28000000000003,"text":"The opposition leader slipped away from her hiding place inside Venezuela and travelled with trusted helpers by land to the Caribbean coast, dodging numerous regime checkpoints along the way, said a person close to her."}],[{"start":211.77000000000004,"text":"Machado then boarded a modest boat, which took her about 40 miles in bad weather to the nearby Dutch island of Curaçao, where she boarded a jet for the journey to Oslo, the person added."}],[{"start":225.20000000000005,"text":"The uncertainty surrounding the journey meant Machado’s team was constantly changing plans, unsure until the last moment whether she would get to Oslo and at what time. Details of her journey were first reported by the Wall Street Journal."}],[{"start":241.68000000000004,"text":"Machado thanked “all those men and women that risked their lives so that I could be here today”, and said she “received support” from the US, though did not give details."}],[{"start":253.72000000000003,"text":"Machado also underlined how Norway — the leading oil and gas producer in western Europe with the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund financed by its petroleum revenues — was “an example” to Venezuela. She said she wanted to turn her country into an “energy, technological and democracy hub of the Americas”."}],[{"start":275.95000000000005,"text":"Machado said the Maduro regime had been sustained by “a very powerful and strongly funded repression system . . . from drug trafficking, from the black market for oil, from arms trafficking, from human trafficking”, and pressed the need to cut off such flows."}],[{"start":293.58000000000004,"text":"In Venezuela, Maduro has sought to play up criticism of Machado, describing her award as “stained with blood” during a speech in Caracas on Wednesday."}],[{"start":305.31000000000006,"text":"Maduro on Thursday held a call with Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin in which “both heads of state reaffirmed the strategic, solid, and growing nature of their bilateral relations”, according to a readout from the Venezuelan foreign ministry."}],[{"start":322.11000000000007,"text":"Putin “expressed solidarity with the people of Venezuela and confirmed his support for the Nicolás Maduro government’s defence of [the country’s] national interests and sovereignty in conditions of growing external pressure”, according to a statement from Moscow."}],[{"start":339.0900000000001,"text":"Additional reporting by Max Seddon in Berlin"}],[{"start":350.6600000000001,"text":""}]],"url":"https://audio.ftcn.net.cn/album/a_1765506926_6213.mp3"}

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