Extended Interview: María Corina Machado

Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan

CBS News

News, News Commentary, Politics

3.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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María Corina Machado, Venezuela's opposition leader, escaped from Venezuela last week to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. Margaret Brennan spoke to her Friday in an exclusive interview, her first comments to U.S. media since receiving the coveted award. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.2	Hi, this is Margaret Brennan, moderator of Face the Nation and Chief Foreign Affairs correspondent at CBS News.
0:36.8	Last week, I spoke with Venezuelan opposition
0:39.3	leader, Maria Karina Machado from Oslo, where she had just won the Nobel Peace Prize. Here's our
0:45.4	exclusive interview. We go now to Maria Karina Machado, Venezuelan opposition leader who joins us from Norway,
0:53.7	where she just received the Nobel Peace Prize.
0:57.5	Welcome to Face the Nation.
0:59.0	Thank you very much, Margaret. It's my pleasure.
1:01.5	You face arrest by the Maduro regime.
1:04.0	I know you went through extraordinary difficulty
1:07.5	just getting out of the country and to Norway.
1:10.5	You said you got support from the United States government to do so.
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