STORY: Scores of demonstrators in Oslo on Tuesday (December 9) protested against Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who is expected in the Norwegian capital to receive the Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony on Wednesday (December 10).

Earlier, the Norwegian Nobel Institute cancelled a planned press conference with Machado, ahead of Wednesday's award ceremony.

Machado, 58, has been subject to a decade-long travel ban imposed by the government of President Nicolas Maduro and has been in hiding for more than a year. The institute said it did not know Machado's current whereabouts.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the prize to Machado for her fight against what it called a dictatorship.

She has aligned with hawks close to U.S. President Donald Trump who argue that Maduro has links to criminal gangs that pose a direct threat to U.S. national security, despite doubts raised by the U.S. intelligence community.

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VIDEO SHOWS: PROTEST AGAINST NOBEL PEACE PRIZE LAUREATE MARIA CORINA MACHADO / SOUNDBITES FROM PROTESTERS

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SHOWS: OSLO, NORWAY (DECEMBER 9, 2025) (REUTERS - Access all)

1. PROTESTERS ACROSS FROM NORWEGIAN NOBEL INSTITUTE

2. VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS WITH BANNERS AND FLAGS

3. PERSON WEARING VENEZUELAN FLAG

4. BANNER READING (English): "No peace prize for warmongers"

5. PROTESTERS WITH BANNERS, WAVING FLAGS

6. FLAGS WAVING

7. BANNER READING (English): "Viva Cuba Viva Venezuela / Imperialism out of Latin America / Revolutionary Communist group rock around the blockade"

8. BANNER READING (English): "US hands off Latin-Amerika"

9. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) INFORMATION ADVISER FOR THE NORWEGIAN SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE FOR LATIN AMERICA, LINA ALVAREZ REYES, SAYING:

“We are here at a demonstration, organised together with a broad alliance of Norwegian solidarity and peace organisations, where we are highlighting that the Nobel Prize is being used to legitimise military intervention. This year’s Nobel Prize winner has not distanced herself from the interventions and the attacks we are seeing in the Caribbean, and we are stating that this clearly breaks with Alfred Nobel’s will."

10. PROTESTERS IN FRONT OF NORWEGIAN NOBEL INSTITUTE

11. VARIOUS OF ENTRANCE TO INSTITUTE

12. VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS

13. VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS MARCHING

14. BANNER READING (English): "Hands off Venezuela"

15. (SOUNDBITE) (English) HEAD OF STOP NATO, ONE OF THE ORGANISATIONS TAKING PART IN THE DEMO, KRISTINE MOLLO-CHRISTENSEN, SAYING:

"It's about giving the peace prize to Maria Corina Machado because we don't think that she is worthy of a peace prize. She has not... she has supported the American actions outside Venezuela against civilians, bombing the boats and also that she has expressed that she is positive towards American intervention in her own country."

16. MAN FILMING PROTESTERS

17. PROTESTERS MARCHING, CHANTING

18. (SOUNDBITE) (English) HEAD OF STOP NATO, ONE OF THE ORGANISATIONS TAKING PART IN THE DEMO, KRISTINE MOLLO-CHRISTENSEN, SAYING:

"She is not... a peace person. she has supported the Trump administration and their actions against civilians outside Venezuela and also intervention in her country."

19. PROTESTERS MARCHING WITH VENEZUELAN FLAG

20. VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS MARCHING