Machado says she'll return to Venezuela "as soon as possible" despite risks

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Washington — Venezuelan absorption person María Corina Machado said she plans to instrumentality location "as soon arsenic possible," contempt her hazard of prosecution by the authorities of President Nicolas Maduro.

Machado made a daring escape from Venezuela this week to judge the Nobel Peace Prize successful Norway, wherever she was reunited with her children for the archetypal clip successful astir 2 years. The absorption person has lived successful hiding successful her ain country, and it was the first clip she's been seen successful public successful astir a year.

Machado said her travel to Norway was important for Venezuelans.

"This is simply a designation to a federation that has fought tirelessly, courageously against a criminal, narcoterrorist structure, and I came to person that prize, that award, and I'm going to bring it backmost location to the Venezuelan people," she said successful an interrogation Friday with "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan."

She declined to springiness details astir the analyzable cognition led by an American rescue squad to safely exfiltrate her from Venezuela, during which she spent hours successful unsmooth seas earlier boarding a formation to Norway.

Last month, Venezuela's lawyer general said Machado would beryllium considered a "fugitive" if she near Venezuela to judge the prize.

Brennan asked Machado whether her children, who each present unrecorded abroad, are acrophobic astir her program to instrumentality to Venezuela. Machado said they're arsenic acrophobic arsenic immoderate kid with relatives successful Venezuela would beryllium due to the fact that Maduro's authorities "has persecuted, tortured, killed, disappeared thousands of Venezuelans."

She said that "when a transgression authorities is falling isolated and they cognize their days are numbered, they crook adjacent much aggressive, adjacent much violent."

Watch much of Brennan's interrogation with Machado Sunday connected "Face the Nation." The afloat speech volition besides beryllium posted connected the "Face the Nation" YouTube channel.