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Venezuelan Opposition Figures Trapped in Argentine Embassy Speak for First Time Since Leaving It
- Five Venezuelan opposition figures appeared in public on May 24, 2025, after over a year inside Argentina's embassy in Caracas.
- They took refuge following contested 2023 elections and arrests ordered by prosecutors accusing them of encouraging violent acts to destabilize Maduro's government.
- The group reported constant surveillance and accused the government of cutting off embassy utilities before describing their escape as a high-risk, strategic operation.
- Magalli Meda characterized their exit as a highly complex and risky operation, while Maduro's administration and Diosdado Cabello rejected the account, dismissing it as fabricated.
- After spending 412 days trapped, the hostages are now safe in the U.S., with their release announced by Secretary of State Marco Rubio as a precise operation.
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Venezuelan opposition figures trapped in Argentine embassy speak for first time since leaving it
For the first time since leaving the Argentine diplomatic compound in Caracas five Venezuelan opposition figures now in the United States appeared in public on Saturday.
Washington, United States. “It was a rescue of the most spectacular in history,” said Venezuelan opponents in Washington this Saturday at the Argentine embassy in Caracas, who are considered the proof “that freedom is possible.”Magalli Meda, Pedro Urruchurtu, Claudia Macero, Humberto Villalobos and Omar González took refuge in the diplomatic legation in March 2024 in the face of an escalation of arrests prior to the July 28 elections, in which t…
"Many times I cried," she told Clarín in Washington Magallí Meda, one of those rescued in an operation led by the U.S. The crude account of a forced confinement. Life without electricity and under the permanent watch of the Chavista security forces.
«We were not part of any agreement. That is a lie, and they lie with arms in their hand». With that phrase, Magallí Meda summed up a devastating testimony that disassembled any attempt to present his departure as part of a negotiation with the regime of Nicolás Maduro . He spoke with the authority of the one who led a presidential campaign since a 412-day forced confinement at the Argentine Embassy in Caracas, turned into prison by direct order …
Magallí Meda, Pedro Urruchurtu, Claudia Macero, Humberto Villalobos and Omar González gave a press conference in Washington, where they stated that the operation that allowed his escape “was one of the most spectacular in history”
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