A vertebral fracture was confirmed after Maria Corina Machado’s clandestine escape from Venezuela, and former fighter Bryan Stern provided a dramatic account of the extraction he called "Golden Dynamite," saying Machado left Caracas in disguise and traveled by broken fishing boat to Curaçao before flying to Oslo.The injury kept Machado from attending the Nobel ceremony and drew scorn from Nicolás Maduro on state television; Machado’s spokeswoman Claudia Macero confirmed the spinal fracture but declined to share further medical details, and Aftenposten and doctors at Ullevål Hospital reported the diagnosis.