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Venezuela Retakes Control of US Embassy
(MENAFN) Venezuela's Vice Foreign Minister for Europe and North America Oliver Blanco announced Saturday that Caracas has formally retaken control of its embassy in the United States, marking a significant milestone in the turbulent relationship between the two nations.
In a post on X, Blanco confirmed that he and Venezuela's head of mission to the US, Felix Plasencia, had personally reclaimed the diplomatic compound, which he said would be rehabilitated to serve the broader Venezuelan community stateside.
The embassy's reclamation caps a years-long rupture in bilateral relations. Venezuela severed all diplomatic ties with Washington in January 2019, citing repeated American interference in its domestic affairs. US diplomatic personnel completed their withdrawal from Caracas by March of that year, prompting the US State Department to establish the Venezuela Affairs Unit in the Colombian capital of Bogota in August 2019 as a functional workaround.
The trajectory of the relationship took a dramatic turn on January 3, 2026, when US military forces conducted a large-scale operation inside Venezuela, forcibly apprehending President Nicolas Maduro and his wife before transferring them to New York. Within weeks, on January 31, 2026, a US diplomatic mission touched down in Caracas, reopening formal channels of communication between the two governments for the first time in years.
The embassy reclamation now stands as the latest — and most visible — symbol of that uneasy, unfolding diplomatic reset.
In a post on X, Blanco confirmed that he and Venezuela's head of mission to the US, Felix Plasencia, had personally reclaimed the diplomatic compound, which he said would be rehabilitated to serve the broader Venezuelan community stateside.
The embassy's reclamation caps a years-long rupture in bilateral relations. Venezuela severed all diplomatic ties with Washington in January 2019, citing repeated American interference in its domestic affairs. US diplomatic personnel completed their withdrawal from Caracas by March of that year, prompting the US State Department to establish the Venezuela Affairs Unit in the Colombian capital of Bogota in August 2019 as a functional workaround.
The trajectory of the relationship took a dramatic turn on January 3, 2026, when US military forces conducted a large-scale operation inside Venezuela, forcibly apprehending President Nicolas Maduro and his wife before transferring them to New York. Within weeks, on January 31, 2026, a US diplomatic mission touched down in Caracas, reopening formal channels of communication between the two governments for the first time in years.
The embassy reclamation now stands as the latest — and most visible — symbol of that uneasy, unfolding diplomatic reset.
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