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Jose Garcia

(3,349 posts) Mon Oct 13, 2025, 07:46 PM Oct 13

Venezuela closes Norway embassy after Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize [View all]

Source: Le Monde

Norway's foreign ministry on Monday said Venezuela had closed its embassy in Oslo, without giving a reason, days after opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

"We have been informed by the embassy of Venezuela that it is shutting its doors and no reason has been given," foreign ministry spokeswoman Cecilie Roang told AFP in an email. "It is regrettable. Despite our differences on several issues, Norway wishes to keep the dialogue open with Venezuela and will continue to work in this direction," she added.

According to the Verdens Gang daily, which revealed the information, the embassy services were no longer answering the phone on Monday afternoon. Its numbers had been disconnected, AFP observed in the evening.

This announcement comes three days after Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. She has made the downfall of the Chavista regime in Venezuela her mission

Read more: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/10/13/venezuela-closes-norway-embassy-after-machado-awarded-nobel-peace-prize_6746393_4.html#

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Venezuela closes Norway embassy after Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize [View all] Jose Garcia Oct 13 OP

I am closing my offices in Los Angeles BOSSHOG Oct 13 #1

Don't tell Krasnov the child rapist, he'll close the one in DC too Blues Heron Oct 13 #2

I'm a bit surprised he hasn't already. Ocelot II Oct 13 #4

You know he wants to! Blues Heron Oct 13 #5

Maybe he's ok because the woman that won said good things about Trump fujiyamasan Oct 14 #12

I'm sure Norway is all broke up about this. patphil Oct 13 #3

Laughing at tsf along with the European leaders. rubbersole Oct 13 #6

How trump-like. Turbineguy Oct 13 #7

As they should Cirsium Oct 13 #8

Yup, she is as nasty as pedo Trump Farmer-Rick Oct 13 #10

Those Nobel Prizes Cirsium Oct 14 #13

Hmmm, thanks for the info Farmer-Rick Oct 14 #15

Norway's "right-wing" politicians would be considered moderate Democrats in the US. Ocelot II Oct 14 #23

The current government has destroyed the lives of people JI7 Oct 14 #18

That may be Cirsium Oct 14 #21

Over 30 percent of the people of Venezuela have left JI7 Oct 14 #29

So? Cirsium Oct 14 #37

So the government sucks and has made people's lives misersble JI7 Oct 15 #42

You're a fan of Maduro, then? Ocelot II Oct 14 #24

OK Cirsium Oct 14 #25

Machado isn't a despot or anything close. Ocelot II Oct 14 #27

Not yet Cirsium Oct 14 #30

I guess if you're an old-school Marxist-Leninist like Roger D. Harris, Ocelot II Oct 14 #33

There we go Cirsium Oct 14 #38

I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it; just noting where his perspective comes from. Ocelot II Oct 14 #39

Huh? Cirsium Oct 14 #40

I didn't single him out; I commented on him only because he was the first on your list Ocelot II Oct 14 #41

We've made some progress here nycbos Oct 13 #9

One of our Achilles heels hueymahl Oct 13 #11

Yup nycbos Oct 14 #14

Democracy always gets destroyed by capitalism Farmer-Rick Oct 14 #17

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That's just weird word play Farmer-Rick Oct 14 #31

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Communism has never been tried Farmer-Rick Oct 14 #16

The Soviet Union was certainly communist as they owned everything not just the means of production EX500rider Oct 14 #22

There was private property in the old USSR Farmer-Rick Oct 14 #34

"True Communism" is never going to happen on a large scale, to unwieldy EX500rider Oct 14 #32

You maybe correct Farmer-Rick Oct 14 #35

I thought Sweden had the Nobel Committee Miguelito Loveless Oct 14 #19

Norway does the Peace Prize; Sweden does all the others. Ocelot II Oct 14 #20

Learn something new every day Miguelito Loveless Oct 14 #28