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The ambassador Laura Dogu arrived this Saturday in Caracas in order to reopen the diplomatic mission of United States in Venezuelaclosed for seven years after the breaking of diplomatic relations between both countries.
The United States embassy in Venezuela shared, through its X account, two photographs of Dogu getting off the plane at the Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía, which serves the Venezuelan capital.
The photos were accompanied by a message from Dogu: “I just arrived in Venezuela. My team and I are ready to work.”
Dogu will serve as chargé d’affaires of the Venezuelan Affairs Unit and will work with individuals in the public and private sectors, as well as civil society, to advance a three-phase plan established by the United States Government.
The Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubioestablished a three-phase plan for Venezuela, marked by a first stage of stabilizationanother of recovery and finally the transition democratic.
About to complete the first month of the capture of the president Nicolas Maduro On the part of the United States, relations with the Caribbean country enter a new phase with the reopening of the American diplomatic mission.
On January 22, the Donald Trump Administration appointed Dogu as chargé d’affaires of the Venezuelan Affairs Unit, which until now was based in Colombia.
This unit is the State Department office in charge of managing relations with Venezuela since the suspension of embassy operations in Caracas in 2019.
Dogu succeeds John McNamara, chargé d’affaires since February 2025 and who traveled to the Venezuelan capital earlier this month to discuss with the authorities the possible resumption of embassy operations.
According to the State Department, Laura Dogu is, in addition to chargé d’affaires of the Venezuelan Affairs Unit, foreign policy advisor to the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Caine.
Venezuela and the United States rrelationships broke in 2019after the first Trump Government recognized the former opposition representative Juan Guaidó as interim president of the South American country.
Following this announcement, the Maduro Government then expelled James Storywho worked as chargé d’affaires in Caracas, as well as the rest of the US diplomatic corps.
Since then, Washington has managed matters related to the oil country from its US External Office for Venezuela, which is located in its embassy in Bogotá.
On January 9, the Government in charge of Delcy Rodríguez announced the beginning of an “exploratory process of a diplomatic nature” with the United States, aimed at the “reestablishment of diplomatic missions in both countries.”
Also to address the consequences of what they consider to be a “kidnapping” of Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, captured on January 3 in a US military operation on Venezuelan soil.