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According to the report, the new head of the US diplomatic mission to Venezuela arrived in the country on Saturday and was welcomed by the South American country’s foreign minister, as relations gradually warm after the ouster of Nicolas Maduro in a US military raid.
Laura Dogu said, “I just arrived in Venezuela. My team and I are ready to work. She said in a post in Spanish on the US Embassy of Venezuela’s X account, accompanied by photos of her disembarking a plane. Dogu, a former ambassador to Nicaragua and Honduras, was named last week as US charge d’affaires in Venezuela. A charge d’affaires is the head of a diplomatic mission in the absence of a full ambassador.
The report said that Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil received Dogu after her arrival. Their meeting was part of an effort by Caracas to define a roadmap on questions of bilateral interest and address existing differences via diplomacy, the foreign ministry said in a statement. The United States has already sent a mission to assess the embassy in Caracas, which has been largely unoccupied for the past six years.
The report said that President Donald Trump said that he is now running Venezuela and has allowed Maduro’s vice president, Delcy Rodríguez to be interim leader so long as she toes Washington’s line, in particular, granting US access to Venezuela’s vast oil reserves.
Trump has said he was working really well with Rodriguez, and a US official has said Rodriguez would visit the United States soon.
Additionally, US authorities on Friday announced that all Americans known to be held prisoner in Venezuela had been released. For years, Venezuela has routinely arrested foreigners and domestic opposition actors on a range of charges from spying to plotting attacks, charges critics dismiss as fabricated.
Source: The Defense Post
New Head of US Mission in Venezuela Arrives as Ties Warm
Laura Dogu said, “I just arrived in Venezuela. My team and I are ready to work. She said in a post in Spanish on the US Embassy of Venezuela’s X account, accompanied by photos of her disembarking a plane. Dogu, a former ambassador to Nicaragua and Honduras, was named last week as US charge d’affaires in Venezuela. A charge d’affaires is the head of a diplomatic mission in the absence of a full ambassador.
The report said that Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil received Dogu after her arrival. Their meeting was part of an effort by Caracas to define a roadmap on questions of bilateral interest and address existing differences via diplomacy, the foreign ministry said in a statement. The United States has already sent a mission to assess the embassy in Caracas, which has been largely unoccupied for the past six years.
The report said that President Donald Trump said that he is now running Venezuela and has allowed Maduro’s vice president, Delcy Rodríguez to be interim leader so long as she toes Washington’s line, in particular, granting US access to Venezuela’s vast oil reserves.
Trump has said he was working really well with Rodriguez, and a US official has said Rodriguez would visit the United States soon.
Additionally, US authorities on Friday announced that all Americans known to be held prisoner in Venezuela had been released. For years, Venezuela has routinely arrested foreigners and domestic opposition actors on a range of charges from spying to plotting attacks, charges critics dismiss as fabricated.
Source: The Defense Post
New Head of US Mission in Venezuela Arrives as Ties Warm