09-05-2025
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
A Great Escape From Venezuela
If you're looking for some good news in the world these days—and who isn't?—consider the U.S.-coordinated rescue this week of four hostages held by Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro. It's an embarrassment to the regime, and a win for the Trump Administration, which took risks that Joe Biden shrank from.
Five members of Venezuela's democratic opposition—Magalli Meda, Omar González, Pedro Urruchurtu, Claudia Macero, and Humberto Villalobos—had been working for the presidential campaign of opposition leader Maria Corina Machado last year when the regime tried to arrest them. On March 20, 2024, they took refuge in the Argentine embassy and requested safe passage out of the country under international law. The regime refused.
