The politicians, who had been sheltering at the Argentinian embassy in Caracas for over a year to avoid arrest, are now on US soil.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio did not provide details of the group's movements to reach the U.S., but he described the event as a rescue operation.

Five Venezuelan dissidents who had sought refuge in Argentina’s embassy in Caracas have escaped the country after more than a year in hiding, in what sources described as a covert military operation led by the United States.