Nobel Peace laureate Maria Corina Machado will do her best to return to Venezuela to end the "tyranny" in the country, she said Thursday as she seized the spotlight in Oslo after nearly a year in hiding.

Machado -- who vanished in January after challenging the rule of President Nicolas Maduro -- first emerged on a hotel balcony in the Norwegian capital to cheering supporters early Thursday after an escape from Venezuela shrouded in mystery.

At a press conference, she thanked those who "risked their lives" to get her to Oslo. It was unclear how she made her way to Norway, or how she will return after Venezuela said it would consider her a fugitive if she left the country.

Earlier, Machado told reporters outside the Norwegian parliament that she would do her "best" to go back.

"I came to

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