Venezuela: U.S. Embassy in Caracas raises American flag again after 7 years
OAN Staff Katherine Mosack
1:20 PM – Saturday, March 14, 2026
The United States Embassy in Caracas has raised the American flag for the first time in exactly 7 years after the Trump administration captured former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and former First Lady Cilia Flores, who await trial for narco-terrorism in New York.
“On the morning of March 14, 2019, the American flag was lowered for the last time at the United States Embassy in Caracas,” U.S. Chargé d’Affaires to Venezuela Laura F. Dogu on the embassy’s X on Saturday morning. “This morning, March 14, 2026, at the same hour, my team and I raised the United States flag—exactly seven years after it was removed.”
“A new era has begun for relations between the United States and Venezuela,” she declared. “We’re staying with Venezuela.”
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