U.S. President Donald Trump ramped up his threats against Venezuela on Saturday by declaring the countryβs airspace βclosed,β a warning that heightened fears of imminent military action.
Caracas, which views a large U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean as a pressure campaign to oust President Nicolas Maduro, slammed Trump's warning as a "colonialist threat."
"To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers," Trump wrote on social media, "please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY."
He did not elaborate, but after months of deadly U.S.
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