After this week a delegation from the government of President Joe Biden carried out a surprise visit to Caracas To meet with representatives of the administration of Nicolás Maduro, the US ambassador to Venezuela, James Story, ruled out this Wednesday – “for the moment” – a new visit.
“Yes, we would love to be back in Venezuela, but at the moment there are no plans to return,” said via Twitter Story, who heads the US government’s Venezuelan Affairs Unit from neighboring Colombia.
It was President Maduro himself who announced on Monday that an “important” delegation from the United States Government traveled to Venezuela to “provide continuity to the communications initiated on March 5” and to the bilateral agenda.
In March, high-ranking representatives of the White House, led by Juan González, adviser to President Joe Biden, met in Caracas with President Nicolás Maduro.
A US State Department spokesman this week described the trip as a wellness visit focused on the safety of several US citizens detained in Caracas, including a group of five executives of the Houston-based oil company Citgo, who have been jailed for more than four years.
In March, the US delegation also held a meeting with Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó, according to sources familiar with the case. Washington recognizes Guaidó as the legitimate leader of Venezuela, having rejected Maduro’s re-election in 2018 as a sham.
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