Several airlines in Europe and America canceled their flights to Venezuela after the US Government issued an alert about the risks of flying over the South American country.
The Spanish Iberia, the Colombian Avianca, the Brazilian Gol and the Portuguese TAP Air Portugal are among the companies that chose to stop traveling to Venezuelan territory, following the notice issued by the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Last Friday, that entity recommended that commercial flights “exercise extreme caution” in the face of what it considers “a potentially dangerous situation in the region,” according to press reports.
In its message, the US agency justified its alert “due to the worsening security situation and the increase in military activity in or around Venezuela.”
This notice coincides with the growing North American military deployment in the area with the argument of combating drug trafficking, an activity that the Trump Administration attributes to the so-called Cartel of the Suns which would be associated, according to Washington, with the Government of Nicolás Maduro.
Several international airlines cancel their flights to Venezuela after the FAA alert about “increased military activity” in that country https://t.co/rOWPVfEEsK
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Reactions from Cuba and Venezuela
The Spanish airline Iberia was the first to cancel its flights to Venezuela, a decision that was made —as he told EFE— in line with what is happening in the region. The company reported that it will evaluate the situation to decide when it will resume operations.
Like her, at least half a dozen companies—such as Avianca, TAP, Gol and Latam—took the same measure as a “precaution,” according to journalistic media. However, other airlines such as the Colombian Wingo are currently maintaining their operations, although they assured to remain aware of the evolution of the current situation.
In this context, the Cuban Foreign Ministry once again warned about the “danger” of a possible military aggression by the United States against Venezuela with the aim of overthrowing its Government.
“The danger of military and terrorist aggression against Venezuela grows, with the aim of violently overthrowing the government of that sister nation,” pointed at X Cuban Vice Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío in line with other similar messages issued from Havana.
Havana rejects that the US uses drug trafficking as an argument to pressure Venezuela
Meanwhile, the Venezuelan Government announced the letters it has received from allies such as Russia, China, Nicaragua and Cuba itself, in support of President Nicolás Maduro regarding the deployment and military exercises of the United States in the Caribbean.
In a broadcast this Saturday on the state channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV), the Venezuelan Minister of Defense, Vladimir Padrino López, assured that his country will not submit to “any threat, any air-naval deployment, no matter how powerful or intimidating it may pretend to be.”
The US campaign began last September and, to date, has consisted of bombing civilian boats allegedly linked to illicit narcotics trafficking. The attacks have spread to Pacific waters and have so far left more than eighty people dead, while the Trump Administration has said it is considering ground operations.
