If you wanted to fly into Caracas — Venezuela’s capital — a year ago, you couldn’t get there from the United States. You typically had to take a flight to another Latin American country, like Panama or Colombia, and switch to one of their airlines. That’s because in March 2019, the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) suspended all direct commercial flights to the country. In May of that year, cargo flights stopped.
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That’s changing.
During Thursday’s cabinet meeting, Donald Trump announced that he’d just spoken to his and Marco Rubio’s pawn, Delcy Rodríguez, the current “acting president” of Venezuela, and he said that he’s informed her that we’re going to open up commercial airspace there.
“American citizens will be, very shortly, able to
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