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The In­ter­na­tion­al Air Trans­port As­so­ci­a­tion (IA­TA) is call­ing on Venezuela to re­verse its de­ci­sion to ban six in­ter­na­tion­al air­lines from op­er­at­ing to/from the coun­try.

On Wednes­day, the op­er­at­ing per­mits of Iberia, TAP Por­tu­gal, avian­ca, LATAM Colom­bia, Turk­ish Air­lines, and GOL Air­lines were re­voked.

In a late-night so­cial me­dia post, the In­sti­tu­to Na­cional de Aeronáu­ti­ca Civ­il Venezuela (IN­AC) said rights were re­voked be­cause the air­lines joined the ac­tions of state ter­ror­ism pro­mot­ed by the US gov­ern­ment when they sus­pend­ed flights to and from the coun­try. Hun­dreds of trav­ellers are strand­ed out­side the coun­try as a re­sult.