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María Corina Machado: Inside the Operation to Sneak Nobel Winner Out of Venezuela

  • A U.S. covert team extracted María Corina Machado during a treacherous operation while she was in hiding from Nicolás Maduro's regime.
  • Bryan Stern, head of the Grey Bull Rescue Foundation, described the escape, noting that it involved rough seas and constant threats from security forces.
  • Machado, a prominent Venezuelan rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, won the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts in promoting democracy and human rights in Venezuela.
  • Her daughter, Ana Corina Sosa, accepted the Nobel Prize on her behalf, stating that Machado will never abandon her goal of a free Venezuela.
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A long trip to the sea, in the middle of the night and in turbulent waters, that of the Nobel Peace Prize. Then the meeting with the special forces. Bryan Stern: "Washington" was informed that they would not sink the boat, now I beg her not to return"

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The Venezuelan opposition leader, María Corina Machado, said this Friday that she feared for her life to leave her country, on a rocky journey through heaven, sea and land according to U.S. media, to get to Norway to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. “There were moments that I felt there was real risk to my life, and that it was also a very spiritual moment because, in the end, I simply felt it was in the hands of God,” she said in a press conferen…

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Miami (USA), Dec 12 (EFE).- Bryan Stern, the U.S. war veteran who led the secret operation to evacuate by sea and disguised opposition María Corina Machado from Venezuela, said Friday that he would be happy to participate in an operation to extract the president of that country, Nicolás Maduro, although he said it would be difficult to take him alive. “I would love to, and I think about it every day, but taking him out alive is difficult.

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Bryan Stern, the U.S. war veteran who led the secret operation to evacuate by sea and disguised opposition María Corina Machado of Venezuela, said this Friday that he would be happy to participate in an operation to extract the president of that country, Nicolás Maduro, although he said it would be difficult to bring him out alive.

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US covert team leader describes 'dangerous' mission to rescue Venezuelan opposition leader

Special forces veteran Bryan Stern described the covert operation to extract Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado from hiding in Venezuela on Fox News Radio.

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