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Donald Trump saved the life of Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado by helping her flee to Norway from the Maduro regime in Venezuela.
Trump assembled an expert team of contractors skilled in extraction operations as well as select members of the US military and helped her get through 10 government checkpoints undetected and eventually flee the country by boat.
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5644246-maria-corina-machado-venezuela-norway-trip/
Trump administration helped Venezuela’s Machado escape to Norway: Report
The Trump administration reportedly aided Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado in her secret travel from Venezuela to Norway for the award ceremony in Oslo.
Venezuela’s opposition leader has been in hiding since Jan. 9, shortly after President Nicolás Maduro started his third term following a disputed election.
Leaving her location on Monday, she first managed to get through 10 military checkpoints undetected, according to reporting by The Wall Street Journal, citing a person familiar with the operation.
She next headed to Curaçao on Tuesday. Her path through the Caribbean Sea was flanked with danger in waters ripe with attacks from the Trump administration in recent weeks. The Journal reported that the group helping Machado reached out to the U.S. military so it would not strike her boat. In addition to Machado, two people were on board the fishing skiff that skipped across the sea after a two-month planning process.
“We coordinated that she was going to leave by a specific area so that they would not blow up the boat,” said the person close to the operation, according to the Journal.
“The Trump administration was aware of the operation, said people familiar with the matter, but the extent of its involvement was unclear,” the Journal reported, but it noted the U.S. Navy and the Pentagon declined to comment and the administration “denied accuracy of the military contact.”
Trump assembled an expert team of contractors skilled in extraction operations as well as select members of the US military and helped her get through 10 government checkpoints undetected and eventually flee the country by boat.
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5644246-maria-corina-machado-venezuela-norway-trip/
Trump administration helped Venezuela’s Machado escape to Norway: Report
The Trump administration reportedly aided Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado in her secret travel from Venezuela to Norway for the award ceremony in Oslo.
Venezuela’s opposition leader has been in hiding since Jan. 9, shortly after President Nicolás Maduro started his third term following a disputed election.
Leaving her location on Monday, she first managed to get through 10 military checkpoints undetected, according to reporting by The Wall Street Journal, citing a person familiar with the operation.
She next headed to Curaçao on Tuesday. Her path through the Caribbean Sea was flanked with danger in waters ripe with attacks from the Trump administration in recent weeks. The Journal reported that the group helping Machado reached out to the U.S. military so it would not strike her boat. In addition to Machado, two people were on board the fishing skiff that skipped across the sea after a two-month planning process.
“We coordinated that she was going to leave by a specific area so that they would not blow up the boat,” said the person close to the operation, according to the Journal.
“The Trump administration was aware of the operation, said people familiar with the matter, but the extent of its involvement was unclear,” the Journal reported, but it noted the U.S. Navy and the Pentagon declined to comment and the administration “denied accuracy of the military contact.”
