Nobel Peace Laureate Maria Karina Machado today vowed to continue her political pursuit to create democracy in Venezuela.

This week, after a year and a half isolated and alone, she braved an arduous journey to accept the Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway.

Nick Schifrin speaks now with the man who helped her escape a Venezuelan government that's been hunting her for a year and a half.

An icon and an iconic moment.

Maria Carino Machado, isolated and in hiding for more than a year,

reaching for and embraced by supporters this week in Oslo.

Hugs for someone who says she hasn't been hugged for 16 months.

Her journey from solitude to overwhelming support risked her life in the lives of an entire team.

How difficult was it to extract her from Venezuela and get her to Oslo?

On a scale of 1 to 10, it was about 106.

Brian Stern is an Army and Navy veteran and chairman and founder of Gray Bull Rescue who organized

her extraction.

We've broken people out of jail from Russia.

We've done hostages from Gaza.

We've done all kinds of things. But the reality is,

is we've never extracted someone, rescued someone or evacuated someone that has a Wikipedia page.

The first challenge, moving Venezuela's most famous woman who hasn't been seen in public since the

middle of 2024. She's a second most popular person after Nicholas Maduro with billboards with her face on it.

And, you know, she has rock star level status in the country.

So to mitigate that risk, lots of things were done to conceal her movement and her identity

and her signature, both physically, digitally, and in other ways.

That was the first step getting her overland through military checkpoints from her hiding point to the coast.

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