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The US Federal Aviation Administration has issued a security advisory notice to airmen (NOTAM) to aircraft operators traveling the Maiquetia Flight Information Region (FIR), an area of airspace for which Venezuela is responsible for providing flight information.

The FAA today issued the advisory for this region urging caution at all altitudes and attributing it to a “worsening security situation’ and ‘heightened military activity’ in or around Venezuela.

The Maiquetia FIR includes all of Venezuelan national airspace and extends over a large portion of the southern Caribbean Sea.