Shafaq News – Washington / Caracas
US President Donald Trump announced on Saturday the closure of airspaceabove Venezuela and surrounding regions “in its entirety.”
“To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, pleaseconsider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITSENTIRETY,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
He had earlier said the United States is preparing new actions againstdrug-smuggling networks in Venezuela, indicating that ground operations wouldbegin “very soon.”
Caracas has not yet commented.
The airspace closure follows months of US strikes on boats Washingtonsays are used by traffickers in Caribbean and Eastern Pacific waters. As ofNovember 15, at least 83 people had been killed in 21 strikes on 22 vessels,according to official US data.
On October 31, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the strikesviolate international law and urged Washington to halt the operations.
Under “Operation Southern Spear,” the Pentagon has deployed more than adozen warships, 15,000 troops, and the world’s largest aircraft carrier to theregion. President Nicolas Maduro, in turn, called on Venezuelans to prepare fora possible “armed struggle” and mobilized 200,000 military personnel.
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