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... "Because of her face, because of her signature, because the entire Venezuelan intelligence service, the entire Cuban intelligence service, parts of the Russian intelligence, were all looking for her for months, and specifically this week, in particular, because of the Nobel Prize, (it) made this operation significantly more high risk than we've ever done before," he said.

He told CNN that his team has carried out 800 operations and rescued more than 8,000 people, but this was "the first person that has a Wikipedia page." ...

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... Asked if his team would ever help Machado return to Venezuela, Stern said he advised her against it.

"When we were on the boat together, we talked about this, and I begged her not to go back," he told CNN.

"She's a real hero and icon of mine, and to put her back in harm's way where she may be arrested, killed, tortured, who knows what? -- I would really not want to do that, but like us, she's a leader, and she wants to be there for her people."
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