Venezuela Permits US Deportation Flights to Continue Despite Trumps Airspace Warning

(Left) President Donald Trump looks on aboard Air Force One during travel to Palm Beach, Fla., from Joint Base Andrews, Md., on Nov. 25, 2025. (Right) Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks at the Eurobuilding Hotel in Caracas on Nov. 14, 2025. Anna Rose Layden/Reuters; Federico Parra/AFP via Getty ImagesVenezuelan authorities on Dec. 2 approved a migrant repatriation flight from the United States, resuming a practice that was paused after U.S. President Donald Trump said last week that the country’s airspace should be considered closed.“The Aeronautic Authority of Venezuela has received a request from the government of the United States to restart migrant repatriation flights from that country to Venezuela,” the country’s transportation ministry said in a statement.