Pompeo said the presence of diplomats is a “constraint” on U.S. policy.
By Paul Schemm Paul Schemm Overnight foreign editor based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Email Bio Follow March 12 at 4:02 AM The United States will pull out its remaining diplomatic personnel from its embassy in Caracas, Venezuela, this week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced late Monday.
“This decision reflects the deteriorating situation in #Venezuela as well as the conclusion that the presence of U.S. diplomatic staff at the embassy has become a constraint on U.S. policy,” tweeted Pompeo. The country has been crippled by a five-day power outage that has plunged people into darkness and left food and water scarce. Venezuela has been racked for the past years by severe economic crisis that has devastated the once-prosperous oil-rich nation.
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