US withdraws all remaining diplomatic staff from Venezuela

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday the decision of the US authorities to remove all diplomats still in Venezuela. "The United States will remove all the remaining staff of the American Embbady in Venezuela this week," reads in the publication of Pompeo on his Twitter account.

According to his statements, the decision "reflects the deterioration of the situation" in Caracas, as well as "the conclusion that the presence of American diplomats at the embbady of [en Caracas] It has become an obstacle to the "policy of the US government.

On 24 January, the United States ordered some of its diplomatic staff to leave Venezuela for security reasons. The decision was taken a day after Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced the breakup of diplomatic and political relations with Washington and ordered the departure of US embbady staff after the self-proclaimed opposition MP , Juan Guaidó, "president in charge" of the president. Country of South America and its recognition as such by the United States.

"I decided to break off diplomatic and political relations with the US imperialist government.Outside they leave Venezuela! A people are here to defend Venezuela," said Maduro, warning that Washington was leading an operation to impose "Across the country". a coup d'etat "a government" fooling their interests ".

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at the end of February that Moscow was closely monitoring the events surrounding the situation in Venezuela and that it was on the side of the United States. "Any shameless attempt to artificially create a pretext for military intervention."

RT.