{"id":319230,"date":"2025-11-30T08:04:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T08:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=319230"},"modified":"2025-12-01T08:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T08:23:07","slug":"trump-closes-airspace-above-and-surrounding-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=319230","title":{"rendered":"Trump closes airspace &#8216;above and surrounding&#8217; Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sky News \u2013 Nov 29, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Donald Trump says the airspace &#8220;above and surrounding&#8221; Venezuela is to be closed &#8220;in its entirety&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/donald-trump-5711\/1\">US president<\/a><\/strong> made the announcement on Truth Social amid growing tensions with the government of President <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/nicolas-maduro-6521\/1\">Nicolas Maduro<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote: &#8220;To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">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! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1994760100376891748?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 29, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It comes after the US aviation regulator warned airlines of a &#8220;potentially hazardous situation&#8221; when flying over <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/venezuela-6520\/1\">Venezuela<\/a><\/strong> due to a &#8220;worsening security situation and heightened military activity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The South American nation subsequently revoked operating rights for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/several-airlines-cancel-venezuela-flights-after-hazardous-situation-warning-13474401\">six major airlines<\/a><\/strong> that heeded the warning and suspended flights to the country.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela&#8217;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Saturday evening it &#8220;denounces and condemns&#8221; what it called a &#8220;colonialist threat&#8221; of &#8220;illegal, and unjustified aggression against the people of Venezuela&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It accused Mr Trump of threatening &#8220;the sovereignty of the national airspace, territorial integrity, aeronautical security, and the full sovereignty of the Venezuelan state&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The US president&#8217;s actions were &#8220;hostile&#8221; and part of a &#8220;permanent policy of aggression against our country&#8221;, which broke both international law and the UN Charter, it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Venezuela will not accept orders, threats, or interference from any foreign power,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No authority outside the Venezuelan institutional framework has the power to interfere with, block, or condition the use of national airspace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump told the US military this week that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/trump-says-land-operations-against-venezuela-drugs-gangs-to-start-very-soon-13476358\">land operations<\/a><\/strong> against suspected Venezuelan drug traffickers would begin &#8220;very soon&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The president has accused his Venezuelan counterpart of involvement in drug trafficking, which he denies.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Maduro, widely considered a dictator, has been president since 2013, and says Mr Trump wants to oust him.<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, America&#8217;s counter-narcotics operations have seen at least 83 people killed in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/we-will-treat-them-exactly-how-we-treated-al-qaeda-us-carries-out-another-lethal-strike-in-caribbean-13462365\">airstrikes on vessels<\/a><\/strong> in the Caribbean Sea.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/trump-closes-airspace-above-and-surrounding-venezuela-13476971\">Continues \u2026\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this a prelude to a wider military operation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319230"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319242,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319230\/revisions\/319242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}