The Venezuelan government has denounced and condemned what it called "the colonialist threat" that seeks to affect the sovereignty of its airspace, describing it as a new extravagant, illegal, and unjustified aggression against the people of Venezuela.

A statement issued by the Nicolás Maduro-led administration on November 29 said Venezuela repudiates with absolute force the public message disseminated hours earlier on social media by US President Donald Trump.

Maduro accused Trump of attempting to "extraterritorially apply the illegitimate jurisdiction of the US in Venezuela by unprecedentedly trying to give orders and threaten the sovereignty of the national airspace, territorial integrity, aeronautical security, and the full sovereignty of the Venezuelan State."