What did Venesueal do?

[gallsman]

BBC News - US seizes oil tanker off Venezuela as Caracas condemns 'act of piracy'
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1w9lg11jw0o

What's the endgame here? Maduro has as much intention of stepping down as Putin has. Surely an actual invasion is off the cards. Maduro may watch the stairwells and open windows he passes

Who knows with Trump. Machado is in Oslo at the minute so maybe he just wants to act the twat. One Venezuelan, all Venezuelans. What's the difference to him?

[seafoid]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/12/11/venezuela-opposition-leader-nobel-peace-prize-maria-machado/

Venezuela's opposition leader slipped out of the country in disguise and appeared in Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

Maria Corina Machado, a pro-democracy activist, stepped onto the balcony of Oslo's Grand Hotel shortly before 2.30am on Thursday after spending more than a year in hiding in Caracas.

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The 58-year-old was smuggled out of Venezuela with help from the US in defiance of a ⁠decade-long travel ban imposed by authorities in her home country, and after spending more than a year in hiding.

Wearing a wig and disguise, Ms Machado evaded 10 military checkpoints before boarding a small fishing boat across the Caribbean to the neighbouring island of Curaçao in a 10-hour operation, the Wall Street Journal reported.

She departed Curaçao on a private plane for Norway, stopping to refuel in Bangor, Maine, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Her escape had been meticulously planned over two months and her team reached out to the White House to ensure that the boat in which she was travelling was not targeted by US air strikes. Some 20 vessels leaving Venezuela have been hit in the last three months, killing 80 people.