US raises flag over embassy in Venezuela after 7-year hiatus
Gulf Times
US raises flag over embassy in Venezuela after 7-year hiatus
The US flag was raised above its embassy in Venezuela Saturday for the first time in seven years, following the US capture of authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro and the restoration of diplomatic relations. "A new era has begun. We're staying with Venezuela," the US charge d'affaires Laura Dogu, the embassy's most senior diplomat, wrote in a post on X with a photo of the Stars and Stripes being raised outside the embassy. Dogu wrote that she and her team raised the flag "exactly seven years after it was removed" on March 14, 2019, two months after Caracas severed ties over Washington's refusal to recognise Maduro's flawed re-election in 2018.
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