Posted on 11/29/2025 12:14:58 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday said that the airspace “above and surrounding” Venezuela should be considered as “closed in its entirety,” an assertion that raised more questions about the U.S. pressure on Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. His government accused Trump of making a ”colonial threat” and seeking to undermine the South American country’s sovereignty.
The White House did not respond to questions about what Trump posted on his Truth Social platform, and it was unclear whether he was announcing a new policy or simply reinforcing the messaging around his campaign against Maduro, which has involved multiple strikes in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean on small boats accused of ferrying drugs as well as a buildup of naval forces in the region. More than 80 people have been killed in such strikes since early September.
The Republican president addressed his call for an aerial blockade to “Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers,” rather than to Maduro.
Venezuela’s government said it “forcefully rejects” Trump’s claim about closing the airspace and that it was a “colonial threat” intended to undermine the country’s “territorial integrity, aeronautical security and full sovereignty.”
The Foreign Ministry said “such declarations constitute a hostile, unilateral and arbitrary act.”
The statement also said that U.S. immigration authorities had unilaterally suspended biweekly deportation flights of Venezuelan migrants. Following negotiations between the two governments, more than 13,000 Venezuelans have been deported to Venezuela this year on dozens of chartered flights, the latest of which arrived late Friday in Caracas, the capital, according to flight-tracking data.
International airlines last week began to cancel flights to Venezuela after the Federal Aviation Administration told pilots to be cautious flying around the country because of heightened military activity.
The FAA’s jurisdiction is generally limited to the United States...
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Maduro can claim anything he wants, but if I had aircraft assets in Venezuela, I’d be getting them out fast.
The “media” in America the new third world craphole are in the process of getting some foreign leaders killed. Our craphole “media” are constantly influencing the brain dead to take on President Trump hoping that one of the jackasses will kill him. That’s how well the jackass press knows President Trump. They are going to get a lot of their fascist dreamboats like Maduro killed. AND THAT’S A GOOD THING!
The net on Maduro is tightening.
“seeking to undermine the South American country’s sovereignty”
Venezuela has no sovereignty. It is no longer a country. It is just a place run by a drug cartel.
Mexico and other places are the same. And I'd put Arizona on the list as well.
Didn’t Maduro try to colonize us the last 4 years?
Maduro’s limo is going to need some new seat cotton before Trump is finished with him.
What kind of name is ‘Maduro’? Oh, it’s Spanish! You know, Spanish colonizers.
The last place on Earth we would colonize is Venezuela. He’s just using it to stir up anti-colonialism, one of the many cards leftists play to invoke hatred.
Then he’s got no worries then
In colonial times you didn’t need to use airspace
Ok, so if we’re acting as proxy for Spain, will that make him happy? If Maduro is playing the “colonialism” card, he knows he’s losing.
Aircraft in the area wouldn’t worry if George Kennedy were still around to evade missiles.
Concorde Airport ‘79.
https://www.reddit.com/r/badMovies/comments/rz9e0l/the_concorde_airport_79_1979/
I believe the pending war with Venezuela is an object lesson directed at Mexico.
I am not sure what can be done about Arizona. Putting a large number of public officials in jail would be less trouble than military strikes.
There are Russian airlines that fly to Venezuela, most regularly to the offshore resort island Margarita from Russian airline Nordwind.
The Ven national airline has regular flights from Caracas to Moscow to Shanghai.
There is also an Azur Airline, which is Russian, that has a history of flights to Ven.
I don’t see these planes getting shot down.
Trump Says He’ll Pardon Ex-Honduran President Serving 45 Years for Drug Trafficking
Nov 28th, 2025
On Friday via Truth Social, President Donald Trump announced that he plans to pardon the former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, who was sentenced to 45 years in U.S. federal prison on drug trafficking and weapons charges.
Hernández was arrested in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, in February 2022 and was extradited to the U.S. in April 2022 to face charges in a New York federal court. U.S. prosecutors said Hernández governed Honduras as a “narco-state,” leveraging the presidency to help move more than 400 tons of cocaine toward the United States in exchange for millions in bribes from major traffickers, among them Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
A federal jury convicted him in March 2024 on three counts related to drug trafficking and firearms conspiracies. He was sentenced on June 26, 2024, to 45 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay an $8 million fine.
Strange times we are living in.
This morning there was an F-18 actually squawking off the coast of Venezuela. They don’t even squawk when they’re flying in the U.S. It was almost like they were advertising that they were there. (Source: Flightradar24)
Maduro the Bus driver
Does “squawking” mean they have their transponder turned on so the show up on air traffic control’s monitors?
“Does “squawking” mean they have their transponder turned on so the show up on air traffic control’s monitors?”
Yes. It was identified with an icon that’s looks like a fighter aircraft and when you click on the icon it gives you information on the aircraft; type, country, speed, altitude, etc. The only ones you will normally see even in the U.S. are trainers, T-34s for Air Force and Goshawks for Navy. You rarely see advanced aircraft squawking (with some exceptions).
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