U.S. Ambassador Laura Dogu arrived in Caracas on Saturday to reopen the American diplomatic mission in Venezuela after seven years of severed ties.

The move comes almost one month after a military action ordered by U.S. President Donald Trump removed the South American country`s then-leader Nicolás Maduro from office.

"My team and I are ready to work," Dogu said in a message posted by the U.S. Embassy in Venezuela `s account on X. It also posted pictures of her upon her landing at Maiquetia airport.

Venezuela and the United States broke off diplomatic relations in February 2019 in a decision by Maduro and closed their embassies mutually after Trump gave public support to lawmaker Juan Guaidó in his claim to be the nation`s interim president in January of that year.

Acabo de llegar a Venezuela. Mi equipo y yo estamos listos para trabajar. – LFD pic.twitter.com/6N5df9Afd0

— Embajada de los EE.UU., Venezuela (@usembassyve) January 31, 2026

Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, one of Venezuela`s most powerful politicians and a Maduro loyalist, said earlier in January that reopening the U.S. embassy would give the Venezuelan government a way to oversee the treatment of the deposed president, who is jailed in the U.S.

Venezuela`s foreign minister Yván Gil said in a message on Telegram that Dogu`s arrival is part of a joint schedule to "deal with and resolve existing differences through diplomatic dialogue, in a foundation of mutual respect and (based on) international law."

Dogu, who was also an ambassador in Nicaragua and Honduras, arrived in Venezuela one day after the country`s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, announced an amnesty bill to release political prisoners. That move was one of the key demands of the Venezuelan opposition.