STORY: Speaking at a televised forum of the National Council of Productive Economy on Tuesday (December 9), Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro thanked demonstrators in Oslo whom he said had marched in support of peace and against a war over Venezuela’s oil, a day before Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado receives her Peace Nobel award.

Maduro told the audience that protesters in more than 65 U.S. cities had rallied against potential U.S. military intervention in Venezuela, citing opinion polls that he said showed 70% of the U.S. public were against it.

Maduro mixed in jokes about Black Friday and his need to speak English with repeated references to slogans such as “no blood for oil” and “no war Venezuela, yes peace.”

Maduro also said that Venezuela’s real economy was doing well, on track to complete 18 consecutive quarters of growth in 2025, with output projected to expand by 9% this year and 7% in 2026, according to the Central Bank of Venezuela.

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VIDEO SHOWS: VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT NICOLAS MADURO DURING PUBLIC EVENT / SOUNDBITES FROM MADURO

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SHOWS: CARACAS, VENEZUELA (DECEMBER 9, 2025) (VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT TV - Access all)

1. VARIOUS OF VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT NICOLAS MADURO AT EVENT OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF PRODUCTIVE ECONOMY

2. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) PRESIDENT OF VENEZUELA, NICOLAS MADURO, SAYING (SOUNDBITE ENDS ON SHOT OF PUBLIC APPLAUDING):

"I want to thank the people of Oslo and of Norway, because thousands took to the streets today to call for peace for Venezuela, to support Venezuela in its desire for peace and development, to say no to war for oil, no blood for oil."

3. (SOUNDBITE) (English/Spanish) PRESIDENT OF VENEZUELA, NICOLAS MADURO, SAYING (SOUNDBITE OVERLAYS A SPLIT SCREEN):

"No blood for oil. No war, no blood for oil, thank you very much Oslo, thank you very much Noruega. They even put up posters all over the city saying 'no to the bloody Nobel'. I do not know what they mean, because I do not get involved in those issues, I have a lot of work."

4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) PRESIDENT OF VENEZUELA, NICOLAS MADURO, SAYING (SOUNDBITE STARTS ON SHOT OF ATTENDEES LISTENING):

"In the United States itself, on Saturday in more than 65 cities, the people, the taxpayers, men and women citizens went out with their slogans and banners to say 'no war Venezuela, yes peace, yes peace'. Thousands of Americans even danced the famous changa (The song created with Maduro saying 'no war, yes peace'), because every poll in the United States says that 70% of public opinion rejects military threats against Venezuela, rejects these so‑called criminal and endless wars, military intervention and any attempt at regime change in Venezuela; U.S. public opinion rejects it."

5. ATTENDEES AT THE EVENT

6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish/English) PRESIDENT OF VENEZUELA, NICOLAS MADURO, SAYING (SOUNDBITE PARTIALLY OVERLAYS VARIOUS OF ATTENDEES LISTENING):

"What they call Black Friday was actually Friday, Saturday and Sunday, because it ran from Friday through Sunday. Now I have to speak a lot of English, they call me a lot from the north, so I have to be speaking English all the time—'Hello, hello, Mister, hello'—it is constant, so I have to be ready. So it was Black Friday, Saturday, Sunday."

7. MADURO DURING EVENT

8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) PRESIDENT OF VENEZUELA, NICOLAS MADURO, SAYING (SOUNDBITE STARTS OVER SHOT OF ATTENDEES LISTENING):

"This year we are reaching, the country should know, 18 consecutive quarters of growth in the real economy, with growth projected at 9% for 2025, and the projection made by the Central Bank of Venezuela, by its president, Doctor in Finance Laura Guerra, is that in 2026 the economy will keep growing, with at least 7% growth in the real gross domestic product."

9. ATTENDEES APPLAUDING

10. MADURO AT EVENT OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF PRODUCTIVE ECONOMY