Venezuelan opposition team flees to U.S. after ‘precise operation,’ Rubio says

Five opposition members from Venezuela, sheltered in the Argentine Embassy in Caracas for over a year under Maduro's orders, have finally returned to the U.S. after a successful rescue operation led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Opposition leader María Corina Machado expressed her gratitude, calling it an "impeccable operation," and acknowledged assistance from U.S. and Argentine officials despite the risks they faced in the embassy amid harassment by Venezuelan security forces. Meanwhile, another opposition figure, former cabinet minister Fernando Martínez Mottola, died later that year from injuries sustained while fleeing persecution after being exiled to Russia.