An American special forces veteran led the operation to get María Corina Machado out of Venezuela: "The first Nobel Prize winner that we've ever rescued."

A Florida-based nonprofit organization was tasked with the mission to take opposition leader María Corina Machado from Venezuela to Norway to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado made her first public appearance in Oslo, Norway, after 11 months in hiding. CBS News correspondent Lilia Luciano spoke with the head of the mission that brought Machado to the Scandinavian country.

The opposition leader greeted supporters, defying the Maduro regime with her presence in the Norwegian capital after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize

Maria Corina Machado reportedly took three days to make it out of Venezuela and reach Norway, wearing a wig and a disguise, dodging checkpoints and the risk of arrest.

The extraordinary escape of Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado from the grip of Nicolás Maduro's authoritarian regime to fly to Norway to receive the Nobel Peace Prize involved months of planning,

The politician, who left Venezuela amid heavy secrecy and probably with covert US help, is due to arrive in Norway on Wednesday night.