New US Charge d’Affaires Arrives in Venezuela to Reopen Diplomatic Mission after 7 Years
Caracas. U.S. Charge d’Affaires Laura Dogu arrived in Caracas on Saturday to reopen the American diplomatic mission in Venezuela after seven years of severed ties.
The move comes almost one month after a military action ordered by US President Donald Trump removed the South American country's then-leader Nicolás Maduro from office.
“My team and I are ready to work,” Dogu said in a message posted by the US Embassy in Venezuela's account on X. It also posted pictures of her upon her landing at Maiquetia airport.
Venezuela and the United States broke off diplomatic relations in February 2019 at the decision of Maduro. They closed their embassies mutually after Trump gave public support to lawmaker Juan Guaidó, who claimed to be the nation’s interim president in January that year.
Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, one of Venezuela's most powerful politicians and a Maduro loyalist, said earlier in January that reopening the US embassy would give the Venezuelan government a way to oversee the treatment of the deposed president, who is jailed in the US.
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