Trump Declares Venezuelan Airspace Closed Amid Attack Fears
Pedestrians look out from a viewpoint over the Simon Bolivar Towers, center right, and National Assembly building, center left, in Caracas, Venezuela, on Nov. 29.
Photographer: Bloomberg
President Donald Trump said airlines should consider the airspace above and around Venezuela to be closed as his administration continues to threaten more aggressive steps against President Nicolas Maduro’s government.
US forces have been massing in the region as Trump weighs military action that would go beyond US strikes on boats that Washington claims are ferrying narcotics toward the US.