TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Tampa Bay nonprofit Grey Bull Rescue, known for launching recovery missions after natural disasters and rescuing civilians from dangerous environments, said on Thursday that it completed its most “high threat and high stakes” mission yet.
Nobel Peace Laureate and Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was absent from the Nobel award ceremony in Oslo on Wednesday, and for good reason; she was the target of a complex rescue mission.
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Grey Bull founder Bryan Stern spoke about the operation in an interview with CBS, providing some details about the logistics and emotional impact of rescuing someone as high-profile as Machado.
“She’s the first person that we’ve ever rescued that has billboards with her face all over it in a country, where there’s protests in her favor,” he said on CBS. “We’ve never rescued anybody with her status, with her stature,” he said…