The international tension has been shot in Venezuela despite the expected birthday of Nicolás Maduro. He self-appointed leader Without proof of his electoral victory, he has been left without a party for his 63rd birthday – he celebrated it this Sunday – given the situation facing his .
The , but no one escapes the fact that it has reached a critical point in the last few hours. In the face of growing uncertainty, many Spanish and international airlines They have decided to avoid the Venezuelan skies as a preventive measure against what may happen.
A few days ago they were, the Chilean Latam, the Turkish Turkish Airlines or the Portuguese one TAP those that took the step of suspending their routes to the South American country. This Monday it’s time to Air Europa and Plus Ultrawhich will resume flights “when conditions are appropriate,” as stated by EFE.
The measure comes after the decision on Friday of the US air authoritywhich urged airlines to “exercise caution” in the face of what it considers “a potentially dangerous situation in the region.”
In Venezuela the air traffic is not suspended…in practice. Because the images shown by the air tracking portal Flight Radar 24 show a almost total empty. Just a couple of private jets for the country and others two flights from Conviasa, the state airline Venezuelan, which insists that its activities are carried out “with total normality.”
The reality is very different and the image taken at 4:47 p.m. Venezuela time (9:47 p.m. Spanish peninsular time) that illustrates the news proves it, when in neighboring countries the activity is infinitely greatereven in the case of less popular or less populated enclaves.
But if we expand the scale and we collect more of the world, the contrast is even greater. Around 5:15 p.m. local (10:15 p.m. on the peninsula) there is hardly any sign of planes. Only if you zoom in very close can you see some small aircraft flying through the skies of Venezuela.
Venezuelan airspace, at 5:15 p.m. local time this Monday
The notice coincided with the order military deployment ordered by Donald Trump in waters of the Caribbean Seaclose to Venezuela, as a measure of pressure on the Maduro Government and within the plan to combat drug trafficking that the US is carrying out.
In a Spanish key, Enaire has published the “strong” recommendation to the civil air operators of “do not make any flights“until December 1 in the airspace within the Fir Maiquetia (SVZM), which covers the entire Venezuelan territory and extends to the Caribbean Sea.
