WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 25th May, 2019) Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido's representative in the United States, Carlos Vecchio, has taken control of the country's embassy in Washington, the group said in a press release on Friday.
"The Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the United States, Carlos Vecchio, on Friday took control of the [Venezuelan] embassy in the United States in Georgetown," the release said.
Vecchio takes over the embassy after it was occupied for weeks by activists who were protecting the facility on behalf of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's legitimate and UN-recognized government.
