President Donald Trump announced Saturday that airlines and pilots should consider the airspace over Venezuela to be shut down.

Writing in a post on Truth Social, the president said , “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.”

Per Fox Business, direct flights from U.S. passenger and cargo carriers to the country under a socialist dictatorship were suspended in 2019. However, the article said some planes still fly over it.

In a call with military personnel on Thanksgiving, Trump said that land strikes on Venezuela would start “very soon” as part of the administration’s push “to deter Venezuelan drug t

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