The United States will withdraw all their diplomats from Venezuela – 03/12/2019

The Secretary of State of the United States, Mike Pompeo, announced Tuesday that the administration of Donald Trump will remove all diplomatic staff who remains in his embbady in Caracas, Venezuela.

"This decision reflects the deteriorating situation in Venezuela and the fact that the presence of American diplomats in the embbady has become a limit for US policy."said Pompeo on his Twitter account.

On January 23, President Nicolás Maduro announced the breakdown of diplomatic relations with the United States, which recognized opposition leader Juan Guaidó as interim president and ordered the departure of all American diplomats from the country. Washington challenged the legitimacy of the Venezuelan president by refusing to obey.

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A day later, the State Department ordered the return of all its government employees "not essential" intended for Venezuela and the parents of diplomats. He also advised American citizens to leave the oil country.

The Venezuelan opposition has called Tuesday new demonstrations on the fifth day of gigantic power outage that paralyzed the country, aggravating the food and health crisis.

For its part, Maduro said Monday that "in the coming days" will solve "definitely" the electric crisis who is crossing his country.

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"You can be sure that we will win this battle definitively at the earliest in the coming days and that we will do it for Venezuela," said the president after having badured that a "high percentage" of the country was already available, without specifying how much, the service has been restored.

"In the past 24 hours we have made steady and sustained progress (…) there are still places in the country where energy has not been stabilized," he said. .

Maduro again pointed out his opponents in Venezuela and the US government as responsible for these power outages, who touch the country since Thursday.

"They will insist on their attacks, so I ask for maximum awareness and understanding if new attacks are affecting the service of their people, their community, their state, maximum understanding," Maduro warned. .

Source: agencies