A flight tracker shows planes flying around Venezuela on Sunday morning after President Donald Trump said on Saturday that the airspace above and close to the country was to be "closed in its entirety."

Flightradar24 showed that no planes were traveling over Venezuela on Sunday at 4 a.m. Eastern Time (ET), with planes appearing to go around the edges of the country instead.

Why It Matters

While Trump has said the airspace above and around Venezuela is to be considered closed, the country's government said it "forcefully rejects" the president's claim and that it was a "colonial threat" intended to undermine the country’s "territorial integrity, aeronautical security and full sovereignty."

The dispute over the air space is the latest escalation in the growing tensions between the U.S.

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