“The US government turned off the water at the Venezuelan embassy to smoke us out of here. No light, no water, little food, ”she wrote on Twitter.

From about mid-April, Benjamin, together with a group of other activists, has been inside the Venezuelan embassy in the United States, preventing him from being taken over by opposition members.

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreas has called on the US State Department to protect the building of the embassy of the Bolivarian Republic.

In late April, Venezuelan diplomats left the diplomatic mission in Washington.