The National Institute of Civil Aeronautics (INAC) has described as false the information released by Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino, regarding the closure of Venezuelan airspace.
“The information generated through the Panamanian president’s account is false @JoseRaulMulino. The Venezuelan Aeronautical Authority confirms that air operations are being carried out with complete normality. Currently, the Flight Radar can be used to observe the 3 Copa Airlines flights operating in Venezuelan airspace,” states the information released by INAC.
The aeronautical authority ratified the full air operations in Venezuelan territory, which are carried out with complete normality, in its IG account, according to a press release from AVN-
He also highlighted that the Flight Radar tool currently shows three Copa Airlines flights operating in Venezuelan airspace.
It was learned that several former Latin American presidents were on board the aircraft, who intended to travel to Venezuela to assume the task of being “international observers” of the elections.
The group of international observers, invited for the 2024 Presidential Election by the National Electoral Council, was welcomed this Friday by the Electoral Power.
Former presidents Mireya Moscoso (Panama), Vicente Fox (Mexico), Miguel Ángel Rodríguez (Costa Rica), José Tuto Quiroga (Bolivia) and former Colombian vice president Marta Lucía Ramírez were not invited to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to monitor the presidential election process.
Transport Minister Ramón Velásquez Araguayán also denied that any flight from Panama to Venezuela had been denied entry.
“It is confirmed that air operations are being carried out with complete normality,” the minister said in a post on his X account, in response to the accusations of the president of Panama, Jesús Mullido, who denounced that a Copa Airlines plane was not allowed to take off to the country. Araguayán showed in his post how “currently on the Flight Radar you can see the three Copa Airlines flights operating in Venezuelan airspace.”
