Printed On 29 Nov 2025
United States President Donald Trump has mentioned the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela is to be closed “in its entirety”, as tensions between the international locations escalate.
There was no quick response by Venezuela to Trump’s social media publish on Saturday.
“To all Airways, Pilots, Drug Sellers, and Human Traffickers, please think about THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY,” he wrote on his Reality Social platform.
Trump’s publish comes amid weeks of escalating rhetoric by senior US officers towards Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his authorities.
Whereas the Trump administration has mentioned it’s focusing on Venezuela as a part of a push to fight drug trafficking, consultants and human rights observers have warned that Washington seems to be laying the groundwork for an try to unlawfully take away Maduro from energy.
The US has deployed an plane provider to the Caribbean and carried out a sequence of lethal bombings on vessels it accused of being concerned in drug trafficking, killing dozens of individuals in what United Nations consultants have described as extrajudicial killings.
Earlier this week, Trump additionally warned that he would begin focusing on Venezuelan drug trafficking “by land” quickly.
Throughout a speech broadcast on nationwide tv on Thursday, Maduro mentioned Venezuelans wouldn’t be intimidated.
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