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The governments of Venezuela and Uruguay will reactivate "in the coming days" their consular services in Caracas and Montevideo to assist their nationals, a decision that is announced after the Uruguayan Foreign Minister, Mario Lubetkin, stated that the fact of not having relations with the Caribbean country, broken since 2024, is complicating some situations.
Through a statement, the Government of Nicolás Maduro indicated that the foreign ministries of Venezuela and Uruguay "inform the public that, as a result of the joint work between both parties, it has been decided to reactivate consular services in the coming days", without specifying the date or adding more information about whether it will resume diplomatic relations with Uruguay.
The same information was confirmed by the Uruguayan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which reported that this decision was made after working together with Venezuela.
On Tuesday, Lubetkin recalled the situation of Fabián Buglione, detained when he entered Venezuela in October 2024 and for whom the Governments of Uruguay and the United States are carrying out cooperation actions in monitoring his condition and seeking his release.
Also that of a Uruguayan who was in the Caribbean country and lost his life there.
He added that various problems of daily life that may arise are resolved by the consulates and highlighted the complications generated by everything being closed.
The diplomatic breakdown between Uruguay and Venezuela was consolidated after the arrival to power of then-President Luis Lacalle Pou (2020-2025), when the country adopted a more critical stance towards the Maduro government, unlike the Tabaré Vázquez Administration (2015-2020), which had opted for neutrality.
Lacalle Pou openly questioned the legitimacy of the Venezuelan presidential elections of July 2024 - when the electoral body proclaimed a questioned re-election for Maduro - and aligned himself with other countries in the region that denounced human rights violations in that country.
This stance generated growing tensions, which culminated in July 2024, when the Maduro government demanded the immediate departure of diplomatic representatives from Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, Panama, Dominican Republic, in response to their statements on the Venezuelan electoral process.
