U.S. Veterans Conduct Maritime Operation to Extract Venezuelan Nobel Laureate María Corina Machado
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Crackles when you bite it. Shows the baker did the work.
Summary
U.S. military veterans conducted a daring nighttime maritime operation to help Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado escape from Venezuela after she won the Nobel Peace Prize. Machado had been in hiding for over a year following her electoral victory over President Nicolás Maduro, who refused to leave office and cracked down on opposition. The veterans successfully extracted Machado so she could attend the Nobel ceremony in Oslo.
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Maduro refused to leave office and ordered a massive crackdown on the opposition
Getting Machado out of Venezuela and to claim her Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo was a daring nighttime maritime operation
It's an extraordinary achievement to win the Nobel Peace Prize. But for this year's laureate, even getting to the ceremony was a feat of its own
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