Caracas, May 7 (EFE) .- The five antichavists who remained asylum since March 2024 in the residence of the Argentine Embassy in Caracas, headquarters under Retuardo of Brazil, left with safe-conducts granted by the government of Venezuela, “after high-level negotiations,” said the Telesur multiestatal channel, citing local media.
The version echoes a publication in the social network X of the journalist Vladimir Villegas, who, referring to the departure of the opponents, indicated that “there was undoubtedly a negotiation.”
“And negotiating is not betraying,” added the communicator, brother of the Minister of Culture, Ernesto Villegas Poljak.
The opponents of Pedro Urruchurtu, Magallí Meda, Claudia Macero, Humberto Villalobos – all members of the opposition party María Corina Machado – and the former deputy Omar González remained a little more than 13 months in the property, where they denounced, were under a “police siege” and faced problems with electricity and drinking water services.
In the thread of publications, Villegas says he received information that the Brazilian embassy in Caracas “was not directly involved in the departure of the asylees in the Argentine Embassy, although – he added, it is not ruled out that Itamaraty has had some participation.”
This Tuesday, the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, confirmed that all Venezuelan opponents of the Argentine diplomatic headquarters in Caracas have been “rescued” and are in US territory.
“The United States celebrates the successful rescue of all hostages held by the Maduro regime at the Argentine Embassy in Caracas,” he wrote in X.
In addition, Rubio said that the Venezuelan government “has undermined Venezuelan institutions, violated human rights and endangered regional security.”
Machado thanked “all who made possible” the “rescue” of the five antichavistas, in which he described as an “impeccable and epic operation for the freedom of five heroes of Venezuela.”
“My recognition and infinite thanks to all those who made it possible,” Machado said in an X publication, in response to Rubio’s information, and said they will “free” each of the 900 considered political prisoners already “30 million Venezuelans.”
Also the opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia described the operation as “impeccable”, without providing more details, statements to which other antichavistas were added.
