The decision to leave Caracas is hardly the first time the United States has pulled all out all embassy or consular staff from a country.
National Assembly President Juan Guaido, who declared himself interim president of Venezuela, leads a session of the opposition-controlled assembly in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, March 11, 2019. By Emily Tamkin Emily Tamkin Foreign affairs Email Bio Follow March 12 at 8:09 AM Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on late Monday that the United States will pull its remaining diplomats from Venezuela, saying that their presence there was a “constraint” on U.S. policy.
The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding what will happen to the embassy files, or what process the embassy staff will follow to get out of Caracas. But in another sense, the diplomatic withdrawal could have been expected -- the United States had already drawn down embassy staff back in January.
Last September, the State Department announced it was temporarily closing and ordering an evacuation of its consulate in Basra, one of three U.S. diplomatic missions in Iraq. The announcement came after a rocket attack and was blamed on Iran-backed violence. Late last month, the Iraqi ambassador to the United States, Fareed Yasseen, asked that the consulate be reopened.
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