After having escaped her country in secret, Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado said Thursday that she got help from the U.S. government to leave hiding in Venezuela and collect her award.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was absent Wednesday from the ceremony in Norway in which she was to receive this year’s Nobel Peace Prize award, but confirmation that she was travel...

Her daughter, Ana Corina Sosa Machado, accepted the Nobel Prize in her name and delivered a speech by her mother in which she said democracies must be prepared to fight for freedom in order to survive...