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The White House did not re­spond to ques­tions about what Trump post­ed on his Truth So­cial plat­form, and it was un­clear whether he was an­nounc­ing a new pol­i­cy or sim­ply re­in­forc­ing the mes­sag­ing around his cam­paign against Maduro, which has in­volved mul­ti­ple strikes in the Caribbean Sea and east­ern Pa­cif­ic Ocean on small boats ac­cused of fer­ry­ing drugs as well as a buildup of naval forces in the re­gion. More than 80 peo­ple have been killed in such strikes since ear­ly Sep­tem­ber.

The Re­pub­li­can pres­i­dent ad­dressed his call for an aer­i­al block­ade to “Air­lines, Pi­lots, Drug Deal­ers, and Hu­man Traf­fick­ers,” rather than to Maduro.

In­ter­na­tion­al air­lines last week be­gan to can­cel flights to Venezuela af­ter the Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Ad­min­is­tra­tion told pi­lots to be cau­tious fly­ing around the coun­try be­cause of height­ened mil­i­tary ac­tiv­i­ty.