The United States and Venezuela on Thursday agreed to restore diplomatic ties between both countries after seven years, both countries announced.

The U.S. State Department said in a statement:

The Venezuelan socialists concluded their statement by recounting words espoused by the nation’s founding father Simón Bolívar in 1819 — who, at the time, expressed his intention to establish “relations of friendship and good understanding” with the government of the United States of America.

The announcement comes hours roughly two months after the United States carried out a law enforcement operation in Caracas to arrest socialist dictator Nicolás…

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