One more drop in a glass overflowing with tension. The president of the United States, declared this Saturday that the airspace “over and around” Venezuela has been completely “cerrado“.
“To all airlines, pilots, drug traffickers and human traffickers: we ask you to consider that The airspace over Venezuela and its surroundings will remain completely closed.“, the American president announced on his Truth Social platform.
Trump’s announcement occurs practically at the end of a week in which the North American president has clearly warned that his military strategy in the fight against drugs would in the near future go from being limited to the waters of the Caribbean to becoming a fight on land.
This same Thursday, Trump already warned that “very soon” operations by North American forces will begin to “detain by land” the supposedly “numerous” Venezuelan drug traffickers, further fueling speculation about a possible US military intervention in the Latin American country.
“You have probably realized that people do not want to make deliveries by sea, and we are going to start stopping them by land as well. By land it is easier, but that is going to start very soon,” said the tenant of the White House in a remote conversation with military personnel on the occasion of Thanksgiving Day.
The Donald Trump Administration, which has authorized the CIA to operate in Venezuela, has used the alleged role of the Cartel of the Suns in drug trafficking as one of its main assets to justify attacks against alleged drug boats in Caribbean waters, although it has also extended them to the eastern Pacific, adding at least 83 deaths in 21 operations in total.
These attacks, within the framework of the so-called ‘Southern Lance’ operation, add to the increase in the US military presence in the area, which has included the deployment of the ‘USS Gerald Ford’ aircraft carrier, the largest in the US Navy.
