This will keep her from being used as a possible hostage by Maduro.
Disguised and in Danger: How a Nobel Peace Prize Winner Escaped Venezuela
https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/disguised-and-in-danger-how-a-nobel-peace-prize-winner-escaped-venezuela-8146dc9d?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqeUrg6uCYU_98ZyB7RqXvLNxp2LuEMtCGh0vptYlDwaE6xm_DDNRrXF&gaa_ts=693c1fb8&gaa_sig=Pfhfq0I4hqaXWrmqc5PhWsmJIZu_XqxT4cSVRcqMkfxOSrXwPAHmACfFO8zYQ479hx6wVdKDr4Idz5_4Ke1rXQ%3D%3D
The Venezuelan opposition leader was trying to get to Norway by Wednesday in time to receive the Nobel Peace Prize that she won for challenging the country’s authoritarian leader, Nicolás Maduro. First she had to get from the Caracas suburb where she has been in hiding for a year to a coastal fishing village, where a skiff awaited her. For 10 nerve-racking hours, Machado and two people helping her escape hit 10 military checkpoints, avoiding capture each time, before she reached the coast by midnight, said a person close to the operation. She rested for a few hours, the person said, before the next leg of her journey: a perilous trip across the open Caribbean Sea to Curaçao. She and her two companions set out on a typical wooden fishing skiff at 5 a.m., the person said, with strong winds and choppy seas slowing them down…
The Trump administration was aware of the operation, said people familiar with the matter, but the extent of its involvement was unclear…Around the same time of their crossing, a pair of U.S. Navy F-18s flew into the Gulf of Venezuela and spent roughly 40 minutes flying in tight circles near the route that would lead from the coast to Curaçao, according to flight-tracking data. It was the closest incursion of U.S. aircraft into Venezuelan airspace since the U.S. military buildup began in September…
Her escape was kept so closely held that the Nobel Institute told Norwegian media it didn’t know where she was as the prize award ceremony in Oslo began.
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