Venezuela said it "denounces and condemns" the U.S. after President Donald Trump said the airspace around the South American country should be considered shuttered.

Trump's remarks are a "colonialist threat" and a "new, extravagant, illegal and unjustified aggression" against Venezuela, Caracas' foreign minister, Yván Gil Pinto, said in a statement posted to social media on Saturday.

Trump had said in a post to his Truth Social platform that "all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers" should consider Venezuela's airspace "CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY."

The U.S. president's announcement came little over a week after the country's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) warned airlines of a "potentially hazardous situation" when flying over Venezuela, urging air crews to exercise

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