Laura Dogu will serve as chargé d’affaires of the Venezuelan Affairs Unit and will work with people from the public and private sectors, as well as civil society, to promote a three-phase plan proposed by the United States.
Ambassador Laura Dogu arrived in Caracas this Saturday, January 31, to reopen the United States diplomatic mission in Venezuela, after the capture of Nicolás Maduro and his wife at the beginning of the month.
«I just arrived in Venezuela. My team and I are ready to work,” Dogu reported at 3:51 pm on the account on the Embassy’s social network X.
Dogu will perform as chargé d’affaires of the Venezuelan Affairs Unit and will work with people from the public and private sectors, as well as civil society, to promote a three-phase plan proposed by the US administration.
I just arrived in Venezuela. My team and I are ready to work. – L.F.D. pic.twitter.com/6N5df9Afd0
— US Embassy, Venezuela (@usembassyve) January 31, 2026
The Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, established a three-phase plan for Venezuela marked by a first stage of stabilization, another of recovery and finally the democratic transition.
As the first month of Maduro’s capture by the United States approaches, relations with the country enter a new phase with the reopening of the US diplomatic mission.
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The US administration has given its support to Delcy Rodríguez as head of the Executive, although it has also approached the opposition leader María Corina Machado, who met on January 15 with President Donald Trump, to whom she presented the Nobel Peace Prize medal.
This Friday, Rodríguez announced that he will promote a general amnesty law to benefit hundreds of political prisoners, covering cases from 1999 to the present. Just after the announcement, the US Embassy reported on the release of all US citizens who were detained in the country; However, the number or identities of these people were not specified.
Human rights organizations and committees of relatives of political prisoners have expressed caution in this regard, since all the conditions proposed for the amnesty are unknown. According to the Penal Forum, there are 711 people detained in the country for political reasons, including a teenager and 56 whose whereabouts are unknown.
With information from D.W.
*Journalism in Venezuela is carried out in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments in place to punish the word, especially the laws “against hate”, “against fascism” and “against the blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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