Venezuela bans airlines that halted flights per US warning: statement

 

Venezuela’s aviation authority said Wednesday that it banned multiple airlines accused of “terrorism” after they suspended routes, heeding warnings from the United States about military activity in the region.

The affected airlines — Spain’s Iberia, Portugal’s TAP, Colombia’s Avianca, Chile and Brazil’s LATAM, Brazil’s GOL and Turkish Airlines — will have their operational permits revoked for “joining the actions of state terrorism promoted by the United States government and unilaterally suspending air commercial operations,” the civil aviation authority said in an Instagram post.

Washington had warned of increased military activity in the Caribbean amid a deployment they say targets narcotics operations, which Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro insists is intended to overthrow his government.