Politics
Venezuela and the United States will restore their ambassadors, Bernardo Álvarez and Patrick Duddy, in the coming days. The two top diplomatic officials had been retired since last September, confirmed on Wednesday Venezuela's Foreign Minister Nicolás Maduro.

The normalization of diplomatic ties "will take place in the coming days, and as soon as the ambassadors have resumed their functions we will move forward to a more fluid communication," Maduro told reporters in the city of Maracay, central Aragua state, where the sixth summit of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) will be opened on Wednesday.

The return of the ambassadors to their respective posts was discussed by Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez and the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during the Summit of the Americas held in Trinidad and Tobago in April.

Then, both countries agreed to "work" to restore their ambassadors, AP reported.