According to WSJ, citing a "person" and "people," this is the story of how Maria Corina Machado supposedly "escaped" Venezuela:
"Wearing a wig and a disguise, María Corina Machado began her escape from Venezuela on Monday afternoon... Over the course of 10 nerve-racking hours, Machado and two people helping her escape hit 10 military checkpoints, avoiding capture each time, before she reached the coast by midnight, said a person close to the operation. She rested for a few hours, the person said, before the next leg of her journey: a perilous trip across the open Caribbean Sea to Curaçao. She and her two companions set out on a typical wooden fishing skiff at 5 a.m., the person said, with strong winds and choppy seas slowing them down."
So Machado made it through ten full military checkpoints without government knowledge, then sailed through perilous seas in a simple wooden peñero boat - the kind which US drones routinely attack - risking her life to collect a Nobel Prize in Oslo.
What's more, she'd been "in hiding" in Venezuela, as though the government had not tolerated her presence for decades as she clamored for foreign military interventions, sanctions, coups and engaged in seditious activities no Western state would tolerate within its borders. And there is no absolutely chance she's been secretly living abroad in a US-aligned country for months, or perhaps longer, waiting for her carefully staged Oslo ceremony to come out in exile.
If you believe this risible CIA propaganda, you might also believe that Machado is a freedom fight who merely wants to restore democracy to the country she loves.
Mike