OSLO, Dec 17 (Reuters) – Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado is doing well, a spokesperson for the Venezuelan opposition leader said on Wednesday, despite sustaining an injury to her back during her recent flight from Venezuela.
Machado fractured a vertebra while fleeing her home country on a small boat last week to receive the award in Oslo.
The laureate “is doing well and is currently attending medical appointments with a specialist to ensure her prompt and full recovery,” a spokesperson said in a statement on X.
“She is no longer in Oslo,” he added. He did not say where she was.
Machado went to Norway in defiance of a decade-long travel ban imposed by authorities in Venezuela and after spending more than a year in hiding, but she arrived too late for the official prize ceremony last week.
She has said she intends to return to Venezuela.
(Reporting by Gwladys Fouche in Oslo; Editing by Hugh Lawson)
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