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Raphael John-Lall

Venezuela’s Gov­ern­ment has de­nounced threats by the Unit­ed States to close its air­space.

Yes­ter­day, Cara­cas con­demned what it de­scribed as a “colo­nial­ist threat” af­ter US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump re­leased in­for­ma­tion an­nounc­ing that Venezue­lan air­space was blocked, a move Venezuela said amount­ed to an at­tempt to “give or­ders and threat­en the sov­er­eign­ty of the na­tion­al air­space.”