Harpviken said he still does not know where María Corina Machado is currently located, who will not participate in the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony awarded to her this year.
“I just don’t know where she is exactly,” Harpviken told NRK, explaining that few people know where and how she moves, due to the repressive nature of Nicolás Maduro’s regime.
The brother of the Venezuelan opponent, Clara Machado Parisca, told Colombian radio station Blu Radio on Tuesday that Corina Machado’s “desire” was to go to Oslo to receive the Nobel Prize, but he refused to guarantee her presence at today’s ceremony in the Norwegian capital.
“Her wish is to be here and receive the award. That’s what I can say at the moment. I don’t know anything else,” he said.
María Corina Machado herself had planned to give a press conference on Tuesday at the Nobel Institute in Oslo at 1:00 pm local time (12:00 GMT), which was initially postponed and then ended up not happening, without any explanations from the institute.
In Oslo, according to the EFE agency, the opponent’s mother, Corina Parisca, her sister and her daughter, Ana Corina Sosa, who will be accompanied at the ceremony by her two brothers, are already present.