Venezuela Greenlights Restart of U.S. Migrant Deportation Flights
Venezuela's Transportation Ministry announced in a statement that flights originating from Phoenix, Arizona to Maiquetia International Airport near the capital Caracas would be permitted to resume operations.
The ministry specified that the flights will take place regularly on Wednesdays and Fridays.
Deportation flights had been operating twice weekly since early this year, but over the weekend, Venezuela said US President Donald Trump's statement that Venezuelan airspace should be considered closed created confusion and temporarily suspended the program.
Trump remarks Saturday marked the latest escalation of tensions between the US and the South American country.
"To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY," he said on his Truth Social platform.
The development follows months of intensifying US military operations throughout Latin America, deploying Marines, naval vessels, fighter and bomber aircraft, submarines and drones amid mounting speculation that Washington could launch an attack on Venezuela.
To date, the US military has executed 21 strikes on suspected drug-smuggling vessels, resulting in the deaths of at least 83 people whom the administration has described as "narco-terrorists."
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