Overview

• Five Venezuelan opposition politicians, facing politically motivated arrest warrants, sheltered in the Argentine embassy in Caracas since March 2024.
• The group coordinated opposition campaigns and challenged Nicolás Maduro's contested election victory from within the embassy.
• Following high-level negotiations, they were covertly extracted to the United States in an operation reportedly involving the U.S. and Italy.
• Their arrival in the U.S. has been confirmed by the U.S. State Department, opposition leader María Corina Machado, and Argentine President Javier Milei.
• The Maduro government has not commented on the operation, despite earlier claims of granting safe-conduct passes for their release.