After Juan Guaido declared himself the "acting president" of Venezuela in January 2019 and received great international support, the matter led to the return of Venezuelan

diplomats accredited in the US capital Washington and the return of loyalists of President Nicolas Maduro to their country after the organization of American States agreed to appoint an envoy from the opposition in their place.

After that, supporters of Nicolas Maduro occupied the embassy building in April for several weeks, which led to sharp confrontations with supporters of Juan Guaido and demonstrators on the street, until the police evacuated the building.

Guaido failed to overthrow Maduro, and the international support he enjoyed gradually waned. At the end of December 2022, three main opposition parties in Venezuela supported the dissolution of the "interim government" despite having supported it when it was formed in January 2019.

Following this decision, the embassy said in a statement that it and "all its representatives have officially ceased to exercise their duties" as of Thursday, expressing regret that its citizens in the United States were deprived of consular services.

The outgoing Ambassador, Carlos Vecchio, expressed regret in a statement for the "political, economic and moral mistake" committed by the opposition in dissolving the Guaido interim government, noting that Nicolas "Maduro is the only beneficiary of this decision".