Shock Embassy Escape Shows Cracks in Maduro’s Security Apparatus
Nicolas Maduro in Moscow on May 7.
Photographer: Alexander Zemlianichenko/POOL/AFP/Getty Images
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The US Secretary of State called it the outcome of a “precise operation.” Venezuelan state-aligned media and influencers say it was the result of a negotiation. Opposition leader María Corina Machado referred to it as the freeing of “national heroes.”
The only person who hasn’t said anything about the stunning escape of five opposition members is their adversary: Nicolás Maduro.