WATCH: Venezuela Issues Statement After President Trump Orders All Aircraft to Avoid Airspace Rising tensions between Washington and Caracas escalated sharply today after President Donald Trump issued a direct and unequivocal warning to all civilian pilots, commercial airlines, and criminal networks operating near Venezuela’s borders. In a brief but forceful statement posted earlier today, President Trump wrote: “To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” Within hours, the Venezuelan dictatorship released a furious, rambling communiqué accusing the United States of “colonialist threats,” denouncing Trump’s warning as an “extravagant, illegal, and unjustified aggression,” and portraying the announcement as an attempt to “give orders”…
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