Venezuelan opposition leader speaks to BBC
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World of Secrets, the child cancer scam, from the BBC World Service. Listen now, wherever you get your BBC podcasts. Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. We're recording this at 16 hours GMT on Thursday 11th December. The Venezuelan opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado, says the Maduro regime is weaker than ever. Survivors of a typhoon in the Philippines are suing oil giant Shell, saying carbon emissions made the storm worse. And we report on the children caught up in drug wars in Marseille. Also in the podcast... so 200 us dollars for kilo investigating the trade in endangered species on facebook The Venezuelan opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado, may not have made it to Norway in time to receive her Nobel Peace Prize, but once she arrived she wasted no time in calling out the authoritarian leader of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro.
She said his regime was now weaker than ever, partly as a result of the actions of President Trump, who on Wednesday announced the seizure of a tanker off the coast of Venezuela. and she confirmed she'd had US help in getting out of the country where she's been living in hiding. Because of delays on her journey caused by rough seas, her prize was collected by her daughter. But she was given a warm welcome when she finally appeared in Oslo in the early hours of Thursday, her first public appearance in nearly a year. A short while later, she spoke to the BBC.
It certainly has been a very profound sentiment suddenly in a matter of a few hours to be able to see the people I love most in their eyes and touch them and cry together and pray together. Then I had a chance to meet also with hundreds of Venezuelan people that are outside the hotel. You must be so proud of your daughter today. Oh, I've been proud of her all her life, and my sons as well. They have taken a really hard part because I had to send them out of the country. They didn't want to leave, but I forced them to go because I couldn't do my job and at the same time protect them. So, you know, they were the only ones in their classes at graduation to be without their mother. And she married, I wasn't with her.
And my son just married, and I wasn't with him. So it gives me a big sense of guilt, but at the same time, I have so much support from them. And they are the reason why I do it, as well as all of his own children.
Were you thinking of those other daughters, those other mothers in Venezuela and around the world who have not had this moment that you've been able to have?
Look, the Chavista regime has tried to divide us. What brought our country back together is that we want our families back home. We want our children back home. So I was thanking the mothers of the political prisoners. We do my talk every week, but I know that soon they will have this immense joy that I had today. I have to ask you about your escape, that you had to wear a wig, a disguise. 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.
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