New head of US mission in Venezuela arrives as ties warm

"I just arrived in Venezuela. My team and I are ready to work," Laura Dogu said in a post in Spanish on the US Embassy of Venezuela's X account, accompanied by photos of her disembarking a plane. Dogu, a former ambassador to Nicaragua and Honduras, was named last week as US charge d'affaires in Venezuela. A charge d'affaires is the head of a diplomatic mission in the absence of a full ambassador. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil received Dogu after her arrival. Their meeting was part of an...