In a call with the chair of the Nobel Committee published just before the ceremony, Machado said she was “very sad and very sorry” that she would not make it in time, while stressing that she was on her way and that there were “so many people that risked their lives in order for me to arrive in Oslo”.

She is “safe” and is expected to arrive in Oslo by Thursday at the latest, the Nobel Institute said shortly before the ceremony was to begin.

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