Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said on Thursday that she does not believe the Venezuelan government knew where she was hiding for most of this year, as she met Norway’s leader a day after her daughter received the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf.

Ms Machado arrived in Oslo hours after Wednesday’s prize ceremony and made her first public appearance in 11 months in the early hours of Thursday.

She emerged from a hotel balcony and waved to an emotional crowd of supporters. She had been in hiding since January 9, when she was briefly detained after joining supporters in a protest in Caracas.

Ms Machado, 58, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in October after mounting the most serious peaceful challenge in years to the authoritarian government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

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