The U.S. government confirmed to EFE this Friday that it has sent a delegation of diplomats to Caracas, responsible for relations with Venezuela, to explore the possibility of reopening the U.S. embassy in the Caribbean country following the operation that captured President Nicolás Maduro on January 3. "On January 9, diplomatic and security personnel from the U.S. Office of External Affairs for Venezuela (VAU), including Chargé d'Affaires John T. McNamara, traveled to Caracas to conduct an initial assessment with a view to a possible gradual resumption of operations," a State Department official explained. U.S. President Donald Trump had already stated last Sunday, a day after the mission that captured Maduro and took him to New York to be tried for narco-terrorism, that Washington is already considering re-inaugurating the U.S. legation in the Caribbean country. The embassy, located in Baruta in the Caracas metropolitan district, closed in 2019 after Nicolás Maduro himself declared that bilateral relations with the U.S. were broken. Since then, Washington has managed matters related to the South American country from its U.S. Office of External Affairs for Venezuela.
