Flights from Maiquetia International Airport in Caracas have not been canceled after Trump said that airspace over Venezuela is closed.
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Alma.Innovadora
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Venezuela's main airport continues to operate despite Trump's announcement
correodelsur.com
The International Airport of Maiquetia Simon Bolivar, the main one in Venezuela, was maintaining its operations normally this Saturday, after the announcement of the US President. USA., Donald Trump, to consider the airspace of this South American country closed.
The airfield, which serves Caracas, received two flights from Barbados and Bogota during the morning and has scheduled the routes from Panama, Curacao and Havana, according to EFE on a tour.
At the moment, in the afternoon, two delayed flights to Panama and Bogota, all operated by the commercial airline Copa, were notified through the screens.
Airport sources told EFE that the delays are unrelated to the context of tension with the United States.
Likewise, a flight to Curacao and another to Havana departed from Maiquetía on this day.
Also at the La Chinita International Airport, located in Maracaibo, the capital of the state of Zulia (west, bordering Colombia), air operations continued smoothly, according to the itineraries disseminated by the airlines.
An unofficial source indicated that seven airlines are still working at that airport and during the week they received charter and international flights.
Principal aeropuerto de Venezuela sigue funcionando pese al anuncio de Trump
Una fuente extraoficial indicó que en ese aeropuerto se mantienen trabajando siete compañías aéreas y durante la semana recibieron vuelos chárter e internacionales.
correodelsur.com
The International Airport of Maiquetia Simon Bolivar, the main one in Venezuela, was maintaining its operations normally this Saturday, after the announcement of the US President. USA., Donald Trump, to consider the airspace of this South American country closed.
The airfield, which serves Caracas, received two flights from Barbados and Bogota during the morning and has scheduled the routes from Panama, Curacao and Havana, according to EFE on a tour.
At the moment, in the afternoon, two delayed flights to Panama and Bogota, all operated by the commercial airline Copa, were notified through the screens.
Airport sources told EFE that the delays are unrelated to the context of tension with the United States.
Likewise, a flight to Curacao and another to Havana departed from Maiquetía on this day.
Also at the La Chinita International Airport, located in Maracaibo, the capital of the state of Zulia (west, bordering Colombia), air operations continued smoothly, according to the itineraries disseminated by the airlines.
An unofficial source indicated that seven airlines are still working at that airport and during the week they received charter and international flights.
Kind of like when he said India had stopped buying Russian oil, and the Indians were like, "eh...no we haven't"
Still, I don't see how he can back down from all this build up without doing something. Hopefully it'll be "symbolic" to save face and it'll blow over.
Yeah that is the hard thing. Trump will likely like to make a quick kinetic action strike, then take a victory lap and announce that he brokered his 9th og 10th peace deal + big business deals and that Maduro is really a great guy. Yet one thing is what Trump likes to do and another is what kind of response he will receive from the possible kinetic action. Fantasy does not always make reality. Distraction can work great to some extent but it doesn't mean it will work every time.
Then there's this angle to Trump's seeming obsession with Venezuela. Not sure I totally trust an "ex" CIA agent, but still find his take intriguing. We know Trump wants to end voting fraud. If he believes Venezuela is where a big part of that happens, that could be part of his motivation for regime change.
dennis
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There does seem to be an intersection between voting machines and Venezuela and a lot of cross pollination going on
8 December 2020 article-
8 October 2024
16 October 2025
8 December 2020 article-
Behind a significant portion of voting machines used in the United States lies a complex web of questionable foreign ties, a hidden ownership structure, and transparency concerns with the software itself, as well as a connection between three key voting systems companies: Smartmatic, Sequoia Voting Systems, and Dominion Voting Systems.
Information from lawsuits, public records, and witness interviews helps to untangle this web.
The Epoch Times spoke with an intelligence source knowledgeable on Venezuela and its criminal activities, a former CIA official who is an expert in Latin American politics and counterterrorism, and a former director of Venezuela’s National Electoral Council who was fired for exposing election fraud in the country. Two of the sources requested anonymity so they could speak freely on the matter.
Voting machine systems have foreign ties
Voting machine systems have foreign ties. Behind a significant portion of voting machines used in the United States lies a complex web of questionable forcubanamericanvoice.com
8 October 2024
16 October 2025
Oct 16 (Reuters) - Voting technology company Smartmatic was charged in U.S. federal court in Florida on Thursday with money laundering and other crimes, in an alleged foreign bribery conspiracy involving three of its former executives to secure business in the Philippines.
US prosecutors charge voting tech company Smartmatic in alleged bribery scheme
Voting technology company Smartmatic was charged in U.S. federal court in Florida on Thursday with money laundering and other crimes, in an alleged foreign bribery conspiracy involving three of its former executives to secure business in the Philippines.www.reuters.com
Bernsten is one of the "three musketeers" that Emerald Robinson has been writing about. Another is Patrick Byrne, who many should recognize from his work on the 2020 election fraud. Robinson has been tweeting about the "inside story" of the 2024 election, and how it was won, for the past several days on her X account. I haven't read the book in question, or watched all the podcast appearances of these guys yet, but from the snippet summaries, the basic descriptions of how election machines are used rings true with what various people discovered and argued about 2020. Trump recently reposted an interview with Bernsten and Pezzullo (author of the book):
Here's a Grok summary of her tweets:
According to Byrne, one of their Venezuelan whistleblower's is Chavez's ex intelligence chief, who was arrested in Spain a few years ago and extradited to the States on drug-trafficking charges. He says he "named names" and links this with the recent developments against Venezuela by the Trump admin.
Some odds and ends: part of the story of how 2024 was won involved taking out Smartmatic/Dominion's Serbian servers a few days before the elections.
Apparently USAID paid countries to use Smartmatic. Robinson cites two cases in her thread from earlier this year. First, they gave the money to the Philippines election authority to hire Smartmatic for their 2016 elections. They also pushed for them in Bosnia in 2024.
Donroe Doctrine, modern interventionism
Gustavo Petro, as president of Colombia and CELAC, questioned the legality of a foreign president closing Venezuela's airspace.
CELAC (Community of Latin American and Caribbean States) emerged in 2010 as an initiative to counteract US hegemony in the region, with leaders such as Hugo Chávez and Rafael Correa (Ecuador) advocating for its replacement of the OAS (Organization of American States). Chávez, for example, cited the Monroe Doctrine as justification for this stance.
CELAC (Community of Latin American and Caribbean States) emerged in 2010 as an initiative to counteract US hegemony in the region, with leaders such as Hugo Chávez and Rafael Correa (Ecuador) advocating for its replacement of the OAS (Organization of American States). Chávez, for example, cited the Monroe Doctrine as justification for this stance.
From Gustavo Petro president of Colombia
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) governs airspace rules under the Chicago Convention, which states that each country has complete sovereignty over its airspace.
The U.S. Code § 40103 asserts exclusive sovereignty over U.S. airspace, but no equivalent international law allows one president to close another's airspace unilaterally.
Petro's position is legally supported, but there are precedents of other powers resorting to blockades, either with or without UN support. Historical precedents of airspace close include:
● Restrictions on Russian airspace during the Ukraine conflict in 2022. Russian authorities restricted the airspace surrounding Ukraine, which meant that this airspace became a no-fly zone. Subsequently, due to political factors related to the war, on February 28, 2022, Russian airlines were banned from accessing European Union airspace.
●The 2017 blockade of Qatar in which several Arab League countries restricted Qatar's access by air, land, and sea.
● The U.S. had previously influenced airspace no-fly zones in Iraq in the 1990s but these were authorized by UN resolutions or coalition agreements.
Bruno Rodriguez , Foreign Minister of Cuba, a country that has suffered from the US blockade for years, said:
The U.S. Code § 40103 asserts exclusive sovereignty over U.S. airspace, but no equivalent international law allows one president to close another's airspace unilaterally.
Petro's position is legally supported, but there are precedents of other powers resorting to blockades, either with or without UN support. Historical precedents of airspace close include:
● Restrictions on Russian airspace during the Ukraine conflict in 2022. Russian authorities restricted the airspace surrounding Ukraine, which meant that this airspace became a no-fly zone. Subsequently, due to political factors related to the war, on February 28, 2022, Russian airlines were banned from accessing European Union airspace.
●The 2017 blockade of Qatar in which several Arab League countries restricted Qatar's access by air, land, and sea.
● The U.S. had previously influenced airspace no-fly zones in Iraq in the 1990s but these were authorized by UN resolutions or coalition agreements.
Bruno Rodriguez , Foreign Minister of Cuba, a country that has suffered from the US blockade for years, said:
Mexican Journalist Erik Gutierrez mentions that Latin America is entering a soft phase of what is known as the Donroe Doctrine in relation to the old Monroe Doctrine, now updated by Trump. He takes the situation in Mexico as an example.
The recent interference by the US president in the Honduran elections not only confirms the Donroe doctrine but also his hypocrisy. Trump promised amnesty to former Honduran President JOH, convicted of drug trafficking in the US, if his preferred candidate, Tito Asfura, who is third in the polls, wins the election in Honduras. As long as they are friends, it does not matter if they are drug traffickers.
Everything indicates that this is the way to preserve US hegemony in the region.
Everything indicates that this is the way to preserve US hegemony in the region.
Alma.Innovadora
Dagobah Resident
Maduro and Trump held a conversation in the midst of the US offensive to open a door to dialogue
elpais.com
US President Donald Trump spoke by phone with Nicolás Maduro last week to agree on a possible meeting between the two in the United States, The New York Times reported on Friday based on anonymous sources familiar with the matter.
The call, which included the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, did not result in concrete plans for the meeting, the New York newspaper report added, which did not share more details about what was discussed between Trump and Maduro.
The conversation occurred "days before" Monday, when the State Department designated the Cartel of the Suns as a terrorist and linked to Maduro, whose government has responded that "it is an invention" of Washington, the article added.
Neither the United States nor the Venezuelan government has commented publicly on the alleged call so far, although they have not denied that it occurred.
The news of the conversation spreads a day after Trump's announcement that the Armed Forces "will begin very soon" to "stop" the "drug traffickers of Venezuela" by land after operations at sea, where the US has bombed more than 20 boats and killed more than 80 people.
Trump is willing to talk to Maduro to "save lives"
"We'll start stopping them by land. Also, by land it's easier, but that's going to start very soon. We warned them to stop sending poison to our country," Trump declared in a Thanksgiving call with military.
Despite this warning, Trump indicated on Tuesday that "I could talk to save many lives" with Maduro, a conversation that would be "welcome" in Venezuela, according to the Venezuelan attorney general, Tarek William Saab.
The announcement of the discussions with Maduro comes after US press reports in October about alleged negotiations that the Venezuelan government had sought with the Trump administration.
The Miami Herald reported that Venezuela's executive vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, proposed that the United States lead a transitional government without Maduro, while The New York Times noted that Caracas offered Washington to open its oil and gold to American companies, and redirect its fuel exports from China to North America.
The reports come amid the growing tension between Venezuela and the United States, which since November 16 deployed the USS Gerald R. Ford, its largest aircraft carrier, to the Caribbean and on Monday carried out attack demonstrations with B-52H bomber aircraft.
Maduro y Trump mantuvieron una conversación en plena ofensiva de Estados Unidos para abrir una puerta al diálogo
La llamada, adelantada por ‘The New York Times’, se dio para explorar una vía diplomática que contrasta con las acusaciones de narcotráfico
US President Donald Trump spoke by phone with Nicolás Maduro last week to agree on a possible meeting between the two in the United States, The New York Times reported on Friday based on anonymous sources familiar with the matter.
The call, which included the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, did not result in concrete plans for the meeting, the New York newspaper report added, which did not share more details about what was discussed between Trump and Maduro.
The conversation occurred "days before" Monday, when the State Department designated the Cartel of the Suns as a terrorist and linked to Maduro, whose government has responded that "it is an invention" of Washington, the article added.
Neither the United States nor the Venezuelan government has commented publicly on the alleged call so far, although they have not denied that it occurred.
The news of the conversation spreads a day after Trump's announcement that the Armed Forces "will begin very soon" to "stop" the "drug traffickers of Venezuela" by land after operations at sea, where the US has bombed more than 20 boats and killed more than 80 people.
Trump is willing to talk to Maduro to "save lives"
"We'll start stopping them by land. Also, by land it's easier, but that's going to start very soon. We warned them to stop sending poison to our country," Trump declared in a Thanksgiving call with military.
Despite this warning, Trump indicated on Tuesday that "I could talk to save many lives" with Maduro, a conversation that would be "welcome" in Venezuela, according to the Venezuelan attorney general, Tarek William Saab.
The announcement of the discussions with Maduro comes after US press reports in October about alleged negotiations that the Venezuelan government had sought with the Trump administration.
The Miami Herald reported that Venezuela's executive vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, proposed that the United States lead a transitional government without Maduro, while The New York Times noted that Caracas offered Washington to open its oil and gold to American companies, and redirect its fuel exports from China to North America.
The reports come amid the growing tension between Venezuela and the United States, which since November 16 deployed the USS Gerald R. Ford, its largest aircraft carrier, to the Caribbean and on Monday carried out attack demonstrations with B-52H bomber aircraft.
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