the united states: embassy in Caracas cut down their staff to a minimum on 24 January, when all the americans in Venezuela were advised to leave the country. On Monday came the news that also the remaining personnel to the home, without specifying the exact date.
”the Decision reflects the deterioration of the situation in Venezuela as well as the conclusion that the US diplomatic staff presence at the embassy has become restrictive for american policy,” it says in the press release. The countries ‘ relationship has been strained for many years and has quickly become even worse in 2019.
broke all diplomatic contact with the united states after Trump administration announced that it recognizes the leader of the opposition, Juan Guaidó as interim president. On a couple of occasions, putin has given the united states’s embassy staff, a short period of time to leave ladet, but it has not been accepted.
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the united states has instead gradually tightened their sanctions and as late as on Monday froze one moscow-Based Evrofinance Mosnarbank which is co-owned by Russia and Venezuela. The goal is to isolate the Maduro and his dwindling crowd of supporters, and the latest sharpening is specific to strangle their ability to finance the state oil company PDVSA.
people, about 10 percent of Venezuela’s population, have fled the country since 2014 due to generally poor conditions, which deteriorated further with the fall in the price of oil and u.s. sanctions. Human rights, food, medicine, housing, and money are some of the bristvarorna that gets people to look away.
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The humanitarian crisis became political in January when the opposition leader Juan Guaidó proclaimed himself interim president and recognized as such by the united states, Sweden, the united kingdom, Germany, Spain, France, and a dozen other countries. Maduro sees his rival as AMERICA’s puppet in the ambition to take the country’s oil wealth seized.
