Veteran U.S. diplomat John M. Barrett arrived in Caracas on Thursday to serve as the new head of the American embassy in Venezuela as part of President Donald Trump’s three-phase plan towards restoring democracy in the South American country.
Barrett, a career member of the State Department’s Senior Foreign Service, was appointed as the new chargé d’affaires of the U.S. embassy in Caracas this month, succeeding Laura Dogu, who temporarily served as the top U.S. Diplomat in Caracas and oversaw the reopening of the American embassy, which remained shut down for seven years after now-deposed socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro unliterally cut off all of Venezuela’s diplomatic ties with the U.S. in early 2019.
Following Maduro’s arrest on January 3 in a U.S. law enforcement operation in Caracas authorized by President Trump, the U.S. government outlined a three-phase plan — stabilization, recovery, and transition — towards restoring democracy in Venezuela, a
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