After living in hiding for almost a year, Machado left her homeland in early December to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway.
The edited two-minute video shows the moment Machado's fishing boat reaches Grey Bull's ship in the Caribbean Sea in the middle of the night. On board are the organization's founder, special forces veteran Bryan Stern, and his rescue team, who specialize in getting people out of hard-to-reach places.
After Stern confirmed Machado's identity in the pitch-black night, he was heard helping her aboard.
"Hi Maria. My name is Bryan. Nice to meet you. I got you," Stern says.
"So wet and so cold," Machado was heard saying.
"I am María Corina Machado. I am alive. I am safe and very grateful to Grey Bull," she then said, directly facing the camera, wearing a dark jacket and hat.
Stern later said they were headed to the Dutch island of Curaçao, an island near Venezuela.
The rescue operation was called “Golden dynamite” - a nod to Alfred Nobel’s invention of dynamite. Stern previously said that the entire rescue operation lasted nearly 16 hours and was carried out in stormy seas. They reached the coast of Curaçao early in the morning after a long, cold and tense journey.
From Curaçao, Machado took a private flight to Oslo and landed barely half a day after her daughter received the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf.
