Full Speech by María Corina Machado in Oslo | Nobel Peace Prize

Name: Full Speech by María Corina Machado in Oslo | Nobel Peace Prize
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00:00You have the floor.

00:01Thank you very much, Prime Minister, and thank you all.

00:05And I want to speak to the Norwegian people, to the European people, to the Venezuelan people.

00:14I would say to all citizens of the world in this hour, and assure you that I am very hopeful Venezuela will be free,

00:23and we will turn a country into a beacon of hope, an opportunity of democracy.

00:30And, well, we will welcome not only the Venezuelans that have been forced to flee,

00:34but citizens from all over the world that will find a refuge, as Venezuela used to be decades ago.

00:41And as I mentioned, well, Ana Corina read yesterday, I believe that our experience in Venezuela conveys to the world a testimony

00:57that certainly, in order to have peace, you require democracy.

01:02Democracy is the system that enables peace in a society, but you cannot have democracy without freedom.

01:10And freedom is an individual decision, a rational decision.

01:17And it's the sum of these individual conscious decisions that bring that collective ethos that creates the force, the strength, and the courage

01:30to fight for freedom, to defend when you've got it.

01:34And that courage comes from the things that truly matter in your life, the things that you love.

01:43And when you feel that those things are most in danger, then the courage increases.

01:49That's why I am convinced that peace, ultimately, is an act of love.

01:57And that's what brought me here.

01:59And I believe there is no other generation in the history of Venezuela that loves more freedom, our family, and our soul, our territory,

02:20the possibility of actually being in your homeland, moving freely in your homeland, because we have lost it.

02:29And as I mentioned to you, the force that brought this country, our nation together, was this longing that we want our children back home.

02:40And we will not stop until they do that.

02:45And we give them a country in which they can live with dignity, with justice, and the responsibility that comes with freedom.

02:56So, we have great admiration for Norway's institutions and democracy.

03:02We share benefits that nature has given us, and we admire the way this society has used them on behalf of your people.

03:18Quite the country of what has happened in Venezuela.

03:21So, we have to learn, and we have used Norway as an example several times during these decades.

03:27And believe me, we will turn Venezuela into that energy, technological, and democracy hub of the Americas.

03:35And we count on you, and I, you know, long for that day, and we will host all of you in a bright, democratic, and free country.

03:46And it's going to be soon.

03:48So, thank you very much, and very honored and grateful to the Novel Committee for this recognition to the Venezuelan people, to a great movement.

03:58I'm just one of the millions of people that form it, and I do believe it is a recognition to democracy as well.

04:09So, thank you very much.

04:13So, then we open up for questions, and the first question comes from the Norwegian broadcaster, TV2.

04:19So, I'm from TV2 in Norway.

04:21I have a question for you, Maria Corina Machado.

04:23So, you arrived just a few hours ago, and you got to reunite with your family in a very long time.

04:31How was that first meeting, and how has your first hours in Oslo been?

04:40I couldn't sleep last night, going over and over again, that first instant when I saw my children.

04:48And for many weeks, I had been thinking of that possibility, and which one of them I would hug first.

05:00And to tell you something, I hugged them the three at the same time, and it's been one of the most extraordinary.