Machado Aides Escape Venezuela After 15-Month Embassy Siege
A police patrol car sits parked outside Argentina's embassy in Caracas in 2024.
Photographer: Matias Delacroix/AP Photo
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Five top aides of Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado escaped the country after the US helped them foil a siege of the Argentine Embassy in Caracas where they had been holed up for 15 months.
The group is now on US soil after a “precise operation” to free them, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday evening in a post on X, without elaborating.