Five members of Venezuela’s political opposition have left the Argentinian diplomatic compound in their country’s capital, Caracas, where they had sheltered for more than a year to avoid arrest, and were in the United States on Tuesday, the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said.
Rubio did not provide details of the group’s movements to reach the US, but he described the event as a rescue operation.
The government of the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, did not immediately comment on the situation.
