The United States withdraws all its diplomatic personnel from Venezuela

The Government of the United States has announced today that the diplomatic staff that still remains in its embassy in Caracas is retiring this week due to the “deterioration of the situation” in Venezuela and the presence of an “obstacle” to the Washington strategy.

“This is the decision on the state of affairs in Venezuela, as well as the conclusion that the presence of personal diplomacy in the embassy has become an obstacle to US policy,” the US secretary of state said in a statement US., Mike Pompeo.