Five members of Venezuela’s political opposition have left the Argentine diplomatic compound in their country’s capital, Caracas, where they had sheltered for more than a year to avoid arrest and were in the United States on Tuesday,

Five of Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado’s closest aides who were hiding inside the Argentine Embassy in Caracas have left the embassy, according to people familiar with the situation.

Five Venezuelan opposition figures that had been sheltering in the Argentinian embassy in Caracas for over a year left the compound and were in the United States, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday.