Venezuela denies that opposition members left country under international rescue operation
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US Says Five Opposition Leaders 'Rescued' from Venezuela
Above: Residence Hall of the Embassy of the Republic of Argentina in Caracas, Venezuela. Image copyright: Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Stringer/Getty Images News via Getty Images
The Spin
Pro-establishment narrative
Even if that may frustrate the families of Americans still in custody in Venezuela, it's great news that the Venezuelan heroes are now finally out of reach for Venezuela's authoritarian and illegitimate Maduro regime as a result of a precise extraction operation.
Establishment-critical narrative
These far-right activists went to the Argentine embassy on their own free will, and Caracas allowed them to stay there as long as they wanted to. Actually, they spent more than a year there only because the U.S. had been offering that the marines would come to their rescue — something they never did.