Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado on Thursday recounted her "extraordinary" reunion with her three children in Oslo, where she emerged from months in hiding after being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Machado arrived at the Grand Hotel in the Norwegian capital early Thursday after slipping out of Venezuela, where she has been in hiding since last summer as she challenges the country's leader Nicolas Maduro.

She had tried to be there on time to accept the prize Wednesday, but her daughter had to stand in her place.

Asked by reporters about her first hours in Oslo and meeting with her children, the laureate quickly became emotional.

"I couldn't sleep last night, going over and over again that first instant when I saw my children," she told a press conference alongside Norw

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