Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who lives in hiding, is due to receive her Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Wednesday, but hours before the ceremony it was still unclear whether she would attend.

A press conference scheduled for Tuesday with the 58-year-old, who went into hiding in her country in August 2024, was first postponed before finally being cancelled, with no sign of Machado in the Norwegian capital.

No one seemed to know her whereabouts or whether she had managed to leave Venezuela.

"She has said that she will be here for the celebrations," the director of the Nobel Institute, Kristian Berg Harpviken, told AFP on Tuesday evening.

"I don't know how she is travelling, I don't know when she's arriving, but I'm still banking on the fact that she will be here in tim

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