Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino met with the family of Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado in Oslo, Norway, ahead of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. Mulino, along with First Lady Maricel Cohen de Mulino, reiterated his full support to the Machado family in their fight to restore democracy in Venezuela. President Mulino stated in Norway that Panama will not back down an inch until Venezuela's elected government takes power. Mulino held a meeting with the family of the Venezuelan opposition leader, María Corina Machado, who are already in Oslo, Norway, for the official Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony next Wednesday. "I am here to support her," Mulino told Corina de Machado and Clara Machado, María Corina's mother and sister. During the meeting, Mulino indicated that "the documents that confirm the landslide victory of Edmundo González Urrutia and María Corina are in Panama." The Panamanian leader's remarks came on the eve of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, an award that María Corina will receive in Oslo, Norway, for her resistance and political leadership. The result, according to Mulino, is already written and certified in documents held in Panama, far from the control of the regime. Mulino said Panama will remain there, firm, without pausing a step. "A key support" Both Machado's mother and sister recognized the importance of the "key" support provided by President Mulino and the people of Panama in defending the restoration of democracy in Venezuela. "He will have our personal gratitude and that of an entire country, because without the solidarity of sister nations and men of integrity committed to democratic causes like President Mulino, we would not be here today, and we know that," said Clara. She expressed being deeply grateful to men like Mulino who helped them to "achieve the freedom we are about to achieve. Venezuela will always carry that in its heart, with an infinite debt for what he has done for us." They extended their gratitude to the people of Panama "for being with us, for opening their doors to so many Venezueluelans, but above all for accompanying us in this fight, for believing in the citizen's struggle," said María Corina's sister. She also referred to the importance for her of the prize her daughter will receive next Wednesday. "There have been so many times that María Corina has traveled all over Venezuela, on top of a truck, with her chest exposed, and I saw her on TV and said: 'My Jesus, protect her!'"
