2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado can be seen making a daring escape from Venezuela in a new video from the rescue team that has gone viral.
The covert mission, titled 'Operation Golden Dynamite', was intended to extract Machado from Venezuela and take her to Norway for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony on December 10.
Released on Friday by Grey Bull Rescue, the team of US Special Operations veterans behind her escape, the video shows her boarding a boat from the Venezuelan coast and sailing to a rendezvous point in the Caribbean Sea.
It was this point that she was picked up by Grey Bull founder Bryan Stern and his team, who had been waiting for her on another boat.
“Hi, María. My name is Bryan. Nice to meet you. I got you,” he is heard saying, after confirming Machado's identity and helping her change vessels in the nocturnal operation.
“So wet and so cold,” she’s heard saying. The edited video then cuts to her speaking directly to the camera.
“I am María Corina Machado. I’m alive. I’m safe and very grateful to Grey Bull.”
She later boarded a plane to Oslo, the capital of Norway, where she would receive her prize and meet her family.
(More details are awaited.)
