He President of Panama, José Raúl Mulinosaid this Thursday that “It will be a great honor” attend next December 10 in Oslo, Norwayat the delivery of the Nobel Peace Prize conferred on the opposition leader Maria Corina Machado.
“For me as a Panamanian, as a president and as a Democrat, it is a great opportunity to be there, support this woman symbol of the tenacious fight against a dictatorship who has that one people of Venezuela oppressed, humiliated and impoverished“Mulino declared during his weekly press conference.
The head of state specified that Will travel next Sunday afternoon towards the Norwegian capital, where the Wednesday the Nobel ceremony will take placeand will return to Panama on Thursday very late at night.
“So it will be a great honor share with other leaders invited to this important event,” added Mulino, who had already announced the November 20 who would accompany Machado, wishing that “I wish she could be there“at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony.
The opposition leader this Wednesday he thanked Millal President of Paraguay, Santiago Peñaalready US Congresswoman María Elvira Salazarfor accepting the invitation to receive the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.
He Norwegian Nobel Committee recently stated that Machado will travel to Oslo to receive the award.
However, the leader of the Nobel Committee, Jørgen Watne Frydnesconsidered, in statements to the public channel NRK, that it is about “a dangerous journey” because he Venezuelan regime has said that it wants to get it out of the wayso he said to wait guarantee security of the opponent and can reach Norway and return to the country.
Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize 2025 “for his tireless work in promoting the democratic rights of the Venezuelan people and for his fight to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy”, as announced by October 10 the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
The leader has shown that the tools of democracy are also those of peace, the committee stressed, adding that the award-winning embodies the hope of a different futurein which the fundamental rights of citizens and their voices are heard.
As leader of the democratic movement in VenezuelaMachado is one of the most extraordinary examples of civil courage in Latin Americathe committee noted.
The winner has been a key and unifying figure in a political opposition that was deeply divided, an opposition that found a common ground in demanding free elections and representative governmenthe adds.