Key Highlights
- covert team carried out a mission to extract Venezuela’s opposition leader, María Corina Machado, as her daughter accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf in Europe.
- Special forces veteran Bryan Stern described the treacherous operation and the measures taken to get her safely out of Venezuela."It was dangerous for her — very dangerous for her — dangerous for everybody involved, frankly," said Stern, head of the Grey Bull Rescue Foundation, on Fox News Radio’s "Brian Kilmeade Show." Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado waves at the Grand Hotel in Oslo, Norway, early Thursday, Dec.
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- (Lise Åserud/NTB Scanpix via AP) Machado shocked much of the world when she appeared on a balcony in Oslo, Norway, on Thursday, thousands of miles from Venezuela.
- Stern explained his group had been doing missions in Venezuela, but when they were first contacted about this task, they had no idea it involved such a high-profile figure.
