The Argentine embassy in Venezuela left the five asylum-seekers who took refuge months ago and are already in "American soil"

They were Venezuelans and had been held since March 2024, months before the elections that Nicolás Maduro set up.The U.S. spoke of an "operation," but the details were not known.There could have been a negotiation.

On Tuesday, opposition leaders celebrated the “rescue” of the five opposition asylum seekers at the Embassy of Argentina in Caracas, guarded by Brazil, after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that they are already on the North American soil. “Impecable,” opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia said, in response to a message from former deputy María Corina Machado on social network X (formerly Twitter), in which he said that there wa…

From the beginning, the refugees lived in unbearable conditions. Venezuelan government forces surrounded the embassy, blocked streets, prevented the passage of aid and cut off basic services such as water and electricity.

The Popular Will political party expressed its satisfaction with the release of the asylum-seekers who remained at the Argentine embassy in Caracas, describing as an important achievement the joint operation that allowed their safe exit, in coordination with the government of the United States. “From Popular Will we celebrate that the asylum-seekers in the Argentine embassy, who should never have been kidnapped, are finally safe thanks to this j…

At the Argentine embassy were Magalli Meda, Claudia Macero, Pedro Urruchurtu, Humberto Villalobos and Omar González. Until this #6May refugees counted 412 days in the embassy facilities. Marco Rubio, U.S. Secretary of State, described the event as a "rescue." María Corina Machado speaks of an "impeccable operation"