Venezuelan Nobel winner tells BBC she knows 'risks' of Oslo trip after months in hiding22 hours ago Share Save Kayla Epstein , Tiffany Wertheimer and Yang Tian Share SaveWatch: BBC speaks to Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina MachadoVenezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who has been in hiding for months, has told the BBC that she knows "exactly the risks" she's taking by travelling to Norway to collect her Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Institute awarded Machado the prize this year for "her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy" in Venezuela. Earlier on Wednesday, her daughter, Ana Corina Sosa, accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on her mother's behalf. Watch: Moment Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado appears on Oslo balconyJorgen Watne Frydnes - chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, who sat with Machado during the interview - had described her journey to Norway as "a situation of extreme danger". "We need to address this regime not as a conventional dictatorship, but as a criminal structure," she told the BBC.