The woman who beat Donald Trump to the Nobel Peace Prize had to beg the White House not to blow her up on her way to collect the award.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado spent more than two months plotting her journey to Oslo to collect the prestigious peace prize after being barred from leaving the country by President Nicolas Maduro’s regime.

Despite narrowly missing the official ceremony, Machado, who has spent over a year in hiding after she was banned from standing against Maduro in last year’s presidential election, eventually appeared to collect her award on Wednesday and thanked those who had “risked their lives” helping her leave the country.

Machado’s clandestine journey to Norway was a perilous one, The Wall Street Journal reports. Assisted by two supporters,

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