Name: La misión para sacar a María Corina Machado de Venezuela
Uploaded: 2025-12-12T00:20:22.825Z
Duration: 4 min 15 s
Description: La líder opositora venezolana María Corina Machado hizo su primera aparición pública en Oslo, Noruega, tras 11 meses en la clandestinidad. Lilia Luciano, corresponsal de CBS News, habló con el jefe de la misión que llevó a Machado al país escandinavo.

La líder opositora venezolana María Corina Machado hizo su primera aparición pública en Oslo, Noruega, tras 11 meses en la clandestinidad. Lilia Luciano, corresponsal de CBS News, habló con el jefe de la misión que llevó a Machado al país escandinavo.

Oslo

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado made her first public appearance in Oslo, Norway, after spending 11 months in hiding due to threats to her safety in Venezuela. The operation to extract her involved multiple stages, including land, maritime, and aviation components, and required careful planning to avoid detection at numerous checkpoints.

Brian Stern, who led the mission, emphasized that the priority was ensuring Machado's safety rather than her attendance at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, which her daughter attended on her behalf. The operation was privately funded, with no direct involvement or financial support from the U.S. government, and involved coordination to evade intelligence services from several countries.

La misión para sacar a María Corina Machado de Venezuela

Bienvenidos de nuevo a The Takeout, gracias por estar con nosotros. La líder opositora venezolana María Carino Machado ha hecho su primera aparición pública tras 11 meses en la clandestinidad. Está escondida porque teme por su vida dentro de Venezuela. Machado llegó a Oslo, Noruega, después de que su hija aceptara el Premio Nobel de la Paz el en su nombre. CBS News ha aprendido bastante sobre la difícil e intrincada operación para conseguir su allí. Machado habló con el jefe de la misión que logró un resultado bastante sorprendente. Lo más peligroso en las operaciones de cualquier tipo son los momentos de transición. ¿Cómo fue esa transición en este caso? Muy complicada, muy complicada. Tuvimos múltiples transiciones en múltiples dominios, a través de múltiples vehículos, a través de múltiples modos de transporte. De nuevo, había un componente terrestre, un componente marítimo y un componente aéreo. Y en cualquiera de esos momentos, en cualquiera de esos momentos de transición, y hay momentos de transición a través de esas áreas, a través de esa tubería, si se quiere, a través de ese mecanismo, que es lo que llamamos un mecanismo, todo y cualquier cosa puede ir mal. Ahora Lilia se une a mí desde el Centro de Transmisión de la CBS para desglosarlo todo. Lilia, llévatelo. Bueno, Mayor, estaba tan cautivado por cada detalle que Brian Stern me contó sobre esa salida. Había estado pensando en eso. Concretamente tenía curiosidad por la línea temporal. Por supuesto, es una operación increíblemente complicada. Lo que sé por lo que me dijo es que hizo falta, que María Corina Machado tuvo que esconderse, tenía que estar no sólo disfrazada, sino escondida para que nadie la viera, que había muchos puntos de control por los que pasó sin ser detectada sin darme demasiados detalles. Pero mi pregunta principal era, OK, ella llegó a Oslo. ¿Por qué no pudo llegar a la ceremonia? Su hija tuvo que leer su discurso de aceptación. Esto es lo que me dijo. No veo esta operación como llevar a María a una ceremonia a tiempo. Veo esto como salvar la vida de un luchador por la libertad, salvar la vida de una madre. No lo veo como asegurarme de que consiga el Nobel de la Paz y todas esas cosas, todo eso. Ciertamente importante. Ciertamente, no lo estoy minimizando. Pero cuando estamos en medio de la operación, nadie realmente se preocupa por las cámaras en ese momento. Todos estamos intentando seguir vivos. Dice que pasaron unos cuatro días antes de que todo esto ocurriera, que empezó a planear, que empezó a trabajar en ello, que ella estaba en el agua con él en un barco por algo entre 12 y 13 horas. Y antes de eso, había un plan de escape en tierra, sin contar el marítimo, que duro algo asi como 15 o 16 horas. Por supuesto, finalmente vimos a María Corina Machado llegar a Oslo, saludar a sus partidarios, a sus aliados, los presidentes de Panamá, Argentina, de Paraguay y Ecuador, que estaban allí para saludarla y, por supuesto, abrazar a sus hijos. Esa es una cosa que Brian me dijo, es que me dijo que yo era una estrella. Nunca había rescatado a un ganador del Premio Nobel de la Paz o cualquier tipo de ganador del Premio Nobel o alguien a ese nivel de reconocimiento. Y eso fue, por un lado, un gran desafío para pasar desapercibido, dada la cantidad de inteligencia de múltiples países aliados de Venezuela que podrían haber estado observando. El otro aspecto de eso fue, dijo, lo honrado que se sentía. También le pregunté, ¿cómo de implicados estaban los Estados Unidos? ¿Estaba usted coordinando directamente o siguiendo las directrices de los militares estadounidenses? Mira, estás en el Caribe con toda esta escalada militar que estamos viendo. ¿Estabas coordinando? Dijo que enviaría información, pero que no había ninguna coordinación directa. También pregunté si los contribuyentes estadounidenses pagaban por esto. Dijo que no. Fueron donantes privados. Ningún funcionario estadounidense pagó parte alguna de este rescate. Detalles importantes. O el gobierno. Lily Luciano, gran material. Realmente me encanta.

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