Laura Dogu, the newly appointed head of the US diplomatic mission to Venezuela, arrived in Caracas, marking a step towards improved relations between the two countries after years of strained ties. This comes amid ongoing efforts to establish a roadmap for bilateral cooperation and address existing differences through diplomacy.
New head of the United States diplomatic mission for Venezuela , Laura Dogu , walking down a plane upon arrival at Maiquetia International Airport after arriving from Bogota. — AFP picand enjoy FREE RM10 & when you sign up using code VERSAMM10 with min.
cash of RM100 today! T&Cs apply.CARACAS, Feb 1 — The new head of the US diplomatic mission to Venezuela arrived in the country yesteray 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. “I just arrived in Venezuela. My team and I are ready to work,” Laura Dogu 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.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. It was shuttered in 2019 shortly after Washington and other major powers declared Maduro to be illegitimate following a flawed election. Maduro then severed diplomatic relations with Washington. US forces attacked Venezuela on January 3, capturing Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores and taking them to New York for trial on US-issued drug trafficking charges. President Donald Trump says he is now running Venezuela and has allowed Maduro’s vice president Delcy Rodriguez to be interim leader so long as she toes Washington’s line—in particular granting US access to Venezuela’s vast oil reserves.Since last year, a charge d’affaires for Venezuela, John McNamara, has been based in neighboring Colombia. McNamara travelled with other US diplomats to Caracas days after Maduro’s ouster to assess “a potential phased resumption of operations” at the embassy. Trump has said he was working “really well” with Rodriguez, and a US official has said Rodriguez would visit the United States soon. Reforms in her first month at the helm of the country have included a proposal for mass amnesty, plans to close the country’s notorious El Helicoide prison in Caracas, and passing a new law opening up the country’s oil sector to private investments. 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. The Foro Penal rights group counts more than 700 political prisoners in Venezuela. Many of them are held at El Helicoide, which has been denounced as a torture center by the opposition and activists.
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