🇺🇸❌🇻🇪❗️ — Via X, United States President Donald J. Trump declares a No-fly Zone over Venezuela!

To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY. Thank you for your attention to this matter! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

🇺🇸📞🇻🇪🇻🇪 — Infobae reports that Trump spoke with Maduro last week and told Maduro that he and his allies (Vladimir Padrino Lopez, Diosdado Cabello, the Rodriguez siblings) should leave soon otherwise military pressure will intensify.

➡️ Over the past weekend, Donald Trump held a telephone conversation with Nicolás Maduro to warn that the United States would escalate military actions if he did not leave Caracas in the near future.

➡️ Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio participated in the conversation between the Republican leader and the Venezuelan dictator.

📝 Rubio's inclusion in the contact with Maduro implies that the Republican administration has already ruled out alternative tactics with the populist regime—oil contracts, for example—which had been proposed in other circles of power within the White House as a means of negotiation to begin the Venezuelan transition.

➡️ In his conversation with Maduro, Trump did not propose a negotiating table or a roadmap to allow the Venezuelan dictator to buy time in the face of the military encirclement deployed by the Pentagon.

📝 On the contrary, the US president reaffirmed to Maduro his political commitment to dismantle the drug cartels operating under the protection of Miraflores Palace.

🇺🇸🇹🇹😎 — A US Army AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) at ANR Robinson International Airport in Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago is now operational.

Such system arrived in Trinidad and Tobago just some days ago

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🇺🇸❌🇻🇪❗️ — New York Times reports that U.S. military officials have developed a range of target options for Trump, including Venezuelan military units that profit from the drug trade or support Maduro

🇻🇪✈️🗺 — Most of the Air activity over Venezuela for now is resumed to 3 topics:

🇻🇪 Regime-related Airlines and Military-owned Aircraft
🤑 "NEPmen" Oligarch's private planes
🇵🇦 Panamaian Cargos (Panama is a neutral country)

🇻🇪🪖🗺 — Venezuelan Bolivarian Air Force F16s airbone over Maracay and Valencia

🇻🇪🪖📹 — Bolivarian Air Force fighters over Valencia, Carabobo State of Venezuela

🇻🇪🪖📹 — Bolivarian Air Force fighters over La Victoria, Aragua State

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — A senior US official told Reuters that Secretary of State Rubio, Special Envoy Witkoff, and Jared Kushner will meet Ukrainian officials on Sunday in Florida.

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🇻🇪❌🇺🇸 — Venezuela’s government rejects President Trump’s “hostile, unilateral, and arbitrary” airspace-closure declaration.

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🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️ — The U.S. has unilaterally halted migrant return flights to Venezuela in the wake of President Trump’s airspace-closure declaration, according to state media VTV.

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🇻🇪🇺🇸🇹🇹⚡️ — NEW: Venezuela has increased security deployments and surveillance across its eastern region near Trinidad and Tobago and other Caribbean countries, according to local Trinidad & Tobago outlet CNC3News.

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🇺🇸❌🇻🇪 — NEW: Trump’s announcement that Venezuelan airspace should now be considered “closed” follows a recent phone call in which he warned President Maduro that the U.S. might resort to “force” if he refused to step down on his own, according to WSJ.

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🇷🇺⛔️🖼️ — ✔️ Kommersant:

"The WhatsApp* messenger may soon be completely blocked in Russia due to non-compliance with Roskomnadzor's requirements, the agency reported today. They emphasized that the platform is used for organizing terrorist activities, recruitment, and fraudulent schemes.

WhatsApp's monthly reach is 96.5 million users (for comparison: Telegram has 91 million users). Recall that in August, RKN blocked voice calls on Telegram and WhatsApp. Previously, messengers Viber and Signal were blocked in Russia on similar grounds.

Amid the restrictions, users are recommended to switch to national services, such as the Max messenger from VK, which already has 55 million registered users. In addition to basic functions, it is planned to integrate it with government services and payment systems. Thus, it could become an analogue of the Chinese WeChat."

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