Venezuela denies that opposition members left country under rescue operation

A police patrol car sits parked outside Argentina’s embassy where some members of Venezuela’s opposition are seeking asylum inside (AP/Matias Delacroix)

Venezuela’s government acknowledged for the first time that members of the country’s opposition had left the Argentine diplomatic compound where they had sheltered for more than a year.

But the government denied that their arrival in the United States occurred under an international rescue operation as characterised by the political faction and the US State Department.