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The exiled Venezuelan opposition leader crossed the Caribbean Sea in a fishing boat before being escorted to Norway in a US plane

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Maria Corina Machado used a wig and disguise to sneak through ten military checkpoints in Venezuela during a perilous three-day journey to the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Norway.