Siege of the Argentine Embassy and ambassador's residence in Venezuela
[1] The cause of the siege was the entry of indicted Venezuelan opposition staff members into the ambassador's residence, where they are taking shelter, presumably to avoid arrest.The events have received condemnation from Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, the United States, Guatemala, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, who expressed solidarity with Argentina.[12] In August 2024, Venezuela's top prosecutor (Tarek William Saab) began a criminal investigation against Venezuelan opposition leaders Edmundo González and María Corina Machado for calling on troops to oppose Maduro.[13] On September 2, an arrest warrant was issued for González for the alleged crimes of "usurpation of functions, falsification of public documents, instigation to disobey the law, conspiracy and association".[19] On November 23, 2024, Pedro Urruchurtu, a political asylum seeker at the embassy, reported shortly before 7:00 p.m. VET that hooded officers from the Directorate of Strategic and Tactical Actions of the Bolivarian National Police Corps (DAET) and the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service had appeared in the vicinity of the Argentine embassy in Caracas with long guns and had surrounded the diplomatic headquarters.