Venezuela closes its airspace to Argentina

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The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry announced the closing of its country's airspace to any aircraft coming from or going to Argentina until that nation compensates Emtrasur for the theft and subsequent destruction of one of its planes. teleSUR   Visit our website: https://www.telesurenglish.net/ Watch our videos here: https://videos.telesurenglish.net/en

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00:00 The Venezuelan foreign ministry announced the closing of its country's airspace to any aircraft coming from or going to Argentina

00:07 until that nation compensates Centrosur for the thief and subsequent destruction of one of its planes.

00:13 The government of Venezuela pointed out that Argentina intends to ignore the consequences of its acts of piracy and thief.

00:22 Last February, Caracas denounced before the international community the violation of the international law

00:28 by the US and Argentinian governments for the thief of an aircraft belonging to the state company Conviasa.

00:35 The plane was retained in Buenos Aires since June 2022 and sent to the United States last February where it was vandalized.

00:44 The Bolivarian government condemned these actions as posing a threat to the region's aviation security,

00:51 emphasizing that it will take legal and diplomatic measures to safeguard the country's rights over its patrimonial assets.

00:58 The Venezuelan foreign ministry said in a statement that it will continue to monitor the situation in Venezuela.

01:04 Through its social network, the foreign minister Ivan Gil expressed,

01:08 "The neo-Nazi government of Argentina is not only submissive and obedient to its imperial master,

01:14 but it has a shameless spokesperson, Mr. Manuel Adorni,

01:18 who pretends to ignore the consequences of his acts of piracy and thief against Venezuela,

01:24 which were won repeatedly because of the criminal acts committed against EMTRA Sur.

01:29 Likewise, the diplomat detailed that Venezuela exercises full sovereignty in its airspace

01:35 and reiterates that no aircraft coming from or heading to Argentina will be able to fly over our territory

01:42 until our company is duly compensated for the damage caused after the illegal actions carried out

01:49 only in order to please their northern tutors."

01:52 Venezuela's declarations come after Argentina's presidential spokesman, Manuel Adorni,

02:02 announced that his government will take diplomatic actions against the government of Caracas.

02:07 Adorni, however, did not specify what the measures against Venezuela will be.

02:12 The spokesman of the Argentinian presidency said that Caracas' decision is part of an alleged reprisal

02:18 for the declared confiscation of a Venezuelan aircraft by Argentina,

02:23 and said today in the United States a fact that the Bolivarian authorities denounce as illegal.

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