Venezuela’s government has acknowledged for the first time that members of the country’s opposition left the Argentine diplomatic compound where they had sheltered for over a year

"Following a precise operation, all hostages are now safely on U.S. soil," Rubio said on X. The five people, close allies of opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, have been living in the embassy since March 2024,

The 84-year-old mother of opposition leader María Corina Machado escaped Venezuela in an operation tied to the US-brokered exit of five political aides who were hiding in the Argentine Embassy in Caracas,