Maduro Orders Venezuelan Diplomats Out of US

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, right, speaks with Constitutional Assembly President Diosdado Cabello at the Supreme Court during an annual ceremony that marks the start of the judicial year in Caracas, Venezuela, on Jan. 24, 2019. Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo

President Nicolas Maduro has ordered all Venezuelan diplomats home from the United States and is closing its embassy—despite the refusal by the United States to do the same in his country.

Maduro said on Jan. 24, that if U.S. officials had any sense they would pull out their own diplomats from Caracas rather than defying his order to leave.