María Corina Machado

You went through 10 military checkpoints, a fishing boat to Curaçao, a private jet, Miami to Oslo.

Venezuela has turned into a nation, a country in which the state applies terrorism.

The regime that has control over

of all institutions has applied state terrorism towards innocent people and committed crimes against humanity.

And everybody that dares to speak out to defend any of your basic rights takes a huge risk and probably ends in prison.

Just for posting news about the Nobel Prize, you will get in prison.

And if they go looking for you and they don't find you in your house, they will take your family, even children.

So they had said that I'm a terrorist, that I have to be in jail for the rest of my life, and they're looking for me.

So certainly leaving Venezuela is very, very dangerous.

So I just want to say today that I'm here because...

Many men and women risked their lives in order for me to arrive in Oslo.

I came here on behalf of millions of anonymous Venezuelan heroes to receive the prize and to take it back to them because it's theirs.

Do you intend to go back to Venezuela?

Of

of course I'm going back to Venezuela.

The Venezuelan government would have disappeared me if they found me when I was in Venezuela.

And I know exactly the risks I'm taking.

And what I've said to the Venezuelan people from the beginning is I'm going to be in the place where I am more useful for our cause.

And until a very short time ago, the place where I thought Venezuela

I had to be was Venezuela.