The first di­rect com­mer­cial flight be­tween the Unit­ed States and Venezuela ar­rived Thurs­day in the cap­i­tal of the South Amer­i­can coun­try, sev­en years af­ter the U.S. Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty De­part­ment or­dered an in­def­i­nite sus­pen­sion, cit­ing se­cu­ri­ty con­cerns.

The re­sump­tion of a non­stop com­mer­cial flight be­tween the two coun­tries comes months af­ter the U.S. cap­ture of then-Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro in a stun­ning night­time raid on his res­i­dence in Cara­cas in ear­ly Jan­u­ary.

It al­so comes a month af­ter the U.S. for­mal­ly re­opened its em­bassy in Cara­cas fol­low­ing the restora­tion of full diplo­mat­ic re­la­tions with Venezuela.