Venezuela announced it would close its embassy in Oslo, days after opposition leader María Corina Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
In a statement, the Venezuelan government did not comment on Machado’s prize, saying that the closure was part of a restructuring of its foreign service.
Norway’s foreign ministry confirmed that Caracas had closed its embassy in Oslo without providing a reason.
The Nobel Committee in Oslo awarded her the prize on Friday in recognition of what it called her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.
In honouring her achievement, Nobel chairman Jørgen Watne Frydnes called Machado a key, unifying figure in a political opposition that was once deeply divided, in a brutal authoritarian state that is now suffering a humanitarian and economic crisis.
