President Joe Biden's chief hostage negotiator led a US delegation on a visit to Caracas on Monday in the latest bid to secure the release of Americans detained in Venezuela, according to a US official and other sources familiar with the matter.
Senior U.S. government officials have quietly traveled to Caracas in the latest bid to bring home detained Americans and rebuild relations with the South American oil giant as the war in Ukraine drags on, forcing the U.S. to recalibrate other foreign policy objectives. A U.S. State Department spokesperson described the trip as a welfare visit…