“We inform the Venezuelan community in the United States and the general public that the Venezuelan Embassy in the United States and all of its officials have officially ceased operations on Thursday, January 5, 2023”, the “Embassy”, not recognized by Caracas officials. he said in a press release.”
All the officials who worked for the institution, as well as its mission to the Organization of American States, will remain in the United States, a source close to the embassy told the channel, who pointed out that the employees cannot return to Venezuela for fear of persecution. by the regime of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. . Carlos Vecchio, who was Guaidó’s ambassador to the United States and leader of the opposition Voluntad Popular party, went into exile in America in 2014 after the Bolivarian Republic issued an arrest warrant for him.
Venezuelan lawmakers, who were also members of the opposition, voted last Friday to remove Guaidó’s “interim government” and instead appointed a commission of delegates to oversee the protection of some Venezuelan economic assets owned by foreign nations.
A press release from the Embassy of the Venezuelan opposition in the United States indicated that the decision to leave office was taken by “the majority of the deputies of the National Assembly, elected in 2015, who approved the reform of the statutory law governing the transition period and abolished the presidency, headed by Juan Guaidó, the interim government and the diplomatic service, including the Venezuelan Embassy in the United States.
Guaidó proclaimed himself the “interim president” of Venezuela in 2019 and was recognized by the White House, leading to a complete severance of Caracas’s ties with Washington. Maduro ordered the closure of all Venezuelan embassies and consulates in the US in January 2019 in response to this admission, and the US suspended operations and withdrew all personnel from its embassy in Caracas in March 2019.
