Venezuela’s government on Wednesday 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, but it denied that their arrival to the United States occurred under an international rescue operation as characterized by the

"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,