Posted on 11/29/2025 6:42:25 AM PST by DFG
President Trump is shutting down Venezuelan airspace “in its entirety” amid a surge in drug trafficking from the South American nation, he announced Saturday morning.
“To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY. Trump wrote in a morning Truth Social post.
“Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
The measure comes just two days after the president said he would begin bombing land-based drug trafficking targets.
“The land is easier, but that’s going to start very soon,” Trump told reporters.
The US has been conducting a sea-focused campaign since September, bombing alleged drug boats originating in Venezuela and other Latin American nations.
Trump claims “poison” trafficking via sea has dropped by 85% since the bombings started, a practice Democrats, scholars and human rights experts have described as extrajudicial executions.
The administration has since carried out at least 21 fatal strikes on the boats.
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I voted for this 👍👍👍
Whether you agree with this or not, this man ain’t effing around.
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I have a friend who had to leave Venezuela with his whole family back in the early 2000’s. He is overjoyed at what is happening there. He is starting to make plans to go back to his home country.
By not showing 100% proof that these boats are carrying drugs he’s telling his critics to go to hell-especially Rand. It’s shoot first and ask questions later-or not at all.
Even if he showed proof the left would insist on due process. That’s why the strikes are in international waters.
Venezuela is a pip-squeak country and he’s exposing Maduro just like he’s doing with the left.
God help us if they win in ‘28.
Hunter’s entertainment budget just increased.
But the Islamo take over gets little or no resistance.
I thought Trump is banning immigrants from Muslim/terrorist countries. Or was that fake news?
Major Telegram channels covering Venezuela are reporting that American attacks on the country may be imminent, with airstrikes and possible naval bombardment expected within the next few hours
It’s shoot first and ask questions later-or not at all.
Because he's not "showing" proof of drugs doesn't mean he doesn't have it.
I don’t believe it’s true.
God help us if they win in ‘28.”
Amen to that. If the rats get the Senate too the SC will be gone along with the Republic.
I approve, but be prepared for the cartels to move their facilities into population centers, using civilians as human shields, a la the Muslims.
It’s true.
12 muzzle countries on ban list...no insies for any reason....
Probably already doing that since the cartels are intertwined with Lebanese smugglers, Hezbollah, the Chinese and the Russian mob as it is.
The giant parcels of cocaine picked out of the water aren’t proof?
These drug labs and storage sites are very very soft targets. Trump’s military can put a kenetic weapon through the roof and into a toilet bowl in a residential apartment if they want to and the CIA’s eyes are probably more present in Venezuela than in DC. Remember when they dropped 2000 lb dead weights onto garages next to Saddam’s school/tank sites? That was pretty cool.
Venezuela is more than a pip-squeak country lately - they effect of the world is shocking:
Not only are those profiting from smuggled drugs going to loose lots of money, they are going to have to fund public works projects that will ultimately help the economy of other countries.
All that oil and they are stupid enough allow drug trade.
Don’t poke the Eagle.
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