Machado suffered vertebra fracture on secret trip from Venezuela to Norway
Opposition leader and Nobel peace prize laureate’s injury was reportedly sustained during high-risk sea crossing
Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel peace prize laureate María Corina Machado suffered a vertebra fracture during her secret journey from Venezuela to Norway last week, her spokesperson has confirmed.
Machado previously said she feared for her life during the perilous voyage to receive her award in Oslo.
Norwegian daily Aftenposten reported that the injury was sustained during a high-risk sea crossing in a small fishing boat battered by high waves.
“The vertebra fracture is confirmed,” Machado’s spokeswoman Claudia Macera said.
“For the moment, no additional information will be disclosed other than what is in the [Aftenposten] article,” she said.
The newspaper said Machado had been examined by doctors at the Oslo University hospital in Ulleval.
After arriving in Oslo in the early hours of Thursday morning, the 58-year-old had on several occasions said she wanted to see a doctor, without providing any medical details.
She had been due to attend the Nobel peace prize ceremony in the Norwegian capital on Wednesday, but was delayed and did not make it in time.
Her fracture did not stop her from climbing over a barrier to greet supporters outside her hotel shortly after her arrival.
Hmmm. It's that kind of broken vertebra; where you climb over barriers for photo-ops with no problem.
Small fishing boat, off Venezuela? Lucky she didn't get lit up by the septics. I do hope it comes out she was lurking in Florida all this time. The corporate media are complicit in the Gaza genocide. Never forget what they did. Never forgive them for it.
Didn't seem to be troubling her too much in the photo on this article.
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