Telesur reports that on Dec. 2, the U.S. Trump administration requested that the Venezuelan government agree to accept the arrival of deportation flights from the United States, beginning this week. This request from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was somewhat surprising, given that President Donald Trump had loudly and illegally proclaimed on Nov. 29 that Venezuela’s airspace was entirely closed and that such deportee flights were suspended.
President Nicolás Maduro is not willing to leave detained Venezuelan deportees to remain unprotected in the U.S. so his Aeronautical Authority gave the U.S. carrier Eastern Airlines LLC permission to make flights on Wednesdays and Fridays from Phoenix, Arizona to the Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetía.
However, in the midst of this renewed communication, CBS News reported on Dec. 3 that during the Dec. 2 cabinet meeting, Trump warned that land operations against Venezuela could begin soon, even suggesting that countries other than Venezuela could be targeted.
