Trump suspends repatriations to Venezuela
Repatriation flights from United States into Venezuela, which so far had transported fourteen thousand Venezuelan illegal migrants, have been suspended. Donald Trump tweeted that he would no longer use Venezuelan airspace. Therefore, there is no longer a legal basis providing entry to deportation flights originated from United States. United States will now have a hassle: as they are seeking to deport hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans out of United States. There is no longer an agreement, which had previously been signed by special envoy Richard Grenell and President Nicolás Maduro last January 31st, which provided grounds for such deportations. Donald Trump unilaterally stopped repatriation agreement on November 29th, 2025. Ten months of uninterrupted repatriations have come to an end. Venezuelan illegal migrants will be used by United States authorities as a piece of negotiation on whatever deal they choose to harass Venezuela.
Donald Trump's request to international community for not using Venezuelan airspace has fortunately not been obeyed. FIR flight information region Maiquetía has been used by Copa Airlines: including flyover between Panama City and Paramaribo, Suriname flights, which cover full length of Venezuelan airspace from west to east. Domestic flights have operated as usual. International flights, through airlines which chose not to leave their passengers stranded, continued as normal.
A picture of Donald Trump on his golf club in Florida looks extremely unhealthy. Arrogant people tend to become extremely mean and dictatorial, in moments prior to their death: as they see that they are not eternal. They see their time is coming and they tend to convey their frustration upon everybody else. These random tweets intending to close airspace of a sovereign nation such as Venezuela might reflect Donald Trump's personal inner deficiencies.
International community reaction in favor of Venezuela's sovereignty and in favor of Venezuela's right of keeping open our airspace was provided by foreign ministers of Iran and Cuba, as well as from Alba Bolivarian alliance of nations. In all cases, it is evident that United States is trying to order non United States persons and companies to avoid usage of a sovereign aerospace that is not property of United States. Venezuelan airspace is Venezuela's. Only authority recognized for usage of Venezuelan airspace is INAC, Instituto Nacional de Aeronáutica Civil. Neither FAA nor president of United States have any bearing on usage of Venezuelan airspace. International flight companies seeking to avoid usage of Venezuelan airspace, failing to honor their contracts to move passengers will have their licenses revoked. Several airlines have already lost landing rights into Venezuela: including Latam, Avianca, Iberia, Tap Air Portugal, Turkish Airlines and Gol. Venezuelan airspace remains open to companies like Boliviana de Aviación, Wingo, Copa, Aserca, Laser, Estelar, Turpial and Conviasa.
Negotiations for dialogue between Donald Trump and Nicolás Maduro remain open as always. International community would prefer a diplomatic solution between Venezuela and United States. Most likely scenario would be that, as United States can no longer fly deportees back into Venezuela due to Donald Trump's own fault, they will have to agree on resuming deportations: on terms that will likely become more favorable to Venezuela, as we always honored our commitments. While Donald Trump unilaterally dismissed usage of Venezuelan airspace. Direct consequence is a blockage of United States administration commitment to speedy and massive deportations. United States is now urged to recognize openness of Venezuelan airspace, if it wants to continue deporting Venezuelan illegal migrants back into Venezuela.
This theater of pretending to close an airspace which is not under Unites States sovereignty provided additional noise, with no substantial upside or downside risks to either dialogue or war. United States military flights continue operating close to Venezuelan space as usual. United States ships continue patrolling Caribbean Sea. Rumors of a possible conversation between Presidents Nicolás Maduro and Donald Trump continue being discussed, as Venezuelan side definitely rejects possibility of performing such a face-to-face meeting in United States. If Nicolás Maduro and Donald Trump were to meet, it would necessarily involve a third country.
Regime change efforts are desperately trying to produce narratives conducive to their dreams. To this date, some regime change promoters go as far as 1992 initial revolutionary activities in Venezuela, to demand regime change. Venezuelan Aviation recently celebrated its thirty-third anniversary, commemorating activities leading to its founding on November 27th, 1992. Today's regime change promoters deplore birth of modern Venezuelan aviation. There are some people whose resentment is permanent. They will forever despise Venezuela's constitutional government. They will by all means seek regime change through any excuse acceptable. These kinds of people have no solution. There is no point in arguing against them. They should either leave this country or stop suffering.
Plights of Venezuela, Cuba and Iran are similar. These three countries are among most vocal adversaries of United States hegemony. Cuba is not well known for possessing natural resources unlike Iran or Venezuela, which would explain why Cuba is seldom a target for United States military aggression. However, Iran and Venezuela count with significant petroleum and gas resources and both countries have a need of defending our sovereignty. What is most amazing is that less than twenty-four hours after Donald Trump imploring closure of Venezuelan airspace, nothing really has happened. Limited flights still use Venezuelan airspace.
Diplomatic focus now shifts on how to provide new airlines and opportunity for flying either charter or scheduled flights. President Nicolás Maduro announced a special program for addressing travel needs of people who need to fly out of Venezuela, or return into Venezuela. During events of last few days, their reservations have been cancelled. Perhaps new flights will be chartered for this emergency. A long-term solution, however, would require existing airlines increasing their frequencies of flights, or welcoming new airlines to use Venezuelan airspace: which would provide them access to a very lucrative market of Venezuelans, always curious to travel worldwide. Venezuela is also expected to increase its role as a tourism destination for people from around the world, who until recently did not even know that Venezuela existed as a country.
This regime change obsession by Donald Trump and Marco Rubio has made Venezuela a permanent headline worldwide. People become curious. People are likely to travel into Venezuela as they realize that this is a really peaceful country: with lots of natural beauties, hospitable people, great food, great climate, great music and a diversity of ecosystems. Margarita Island has already been receiving tourists from Poland, Russia, Iran, and many exotic countries. Venezuela looks bound to become a melting pot of Eastern Hemispheric cultures within Western Hemisphere, which will strengthen our historical openness to universal values of humankind.
Donald Trump is joined by extremists and fanatics of exclusive Western civilization. They are no longer relevant as Venezuelan culture has already transcended Western limitations. We are becoming open to eastern innovations. Donald Trump's options are becoming scant. He has a choice of either retreating or attacking. This warning period has been extremely lengthy. So many ultimatums have been provided that it would not be surprising if, in a couple of days, Donald Trump issues yet another ultimatum with no follow up.
Military preparations in Trinidad & Tobago and Dominican Republic show presidencies and prime ministries, in both insular countries, giving up their independence. Caricom is expected to meet within next few days: on occasion of welcoming Prime Minister Godwin Friday from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. This should become a great opportunity to address United States military involvement: in both Dominican Republic and Trinidad & Tobago. While countries from Central America, South America, and Caribbean further recognize additions and variety provided by Russian, Iranian, and Chinese trade,along with military assets for common defense.
Caribbean, Central American and South American countrie will be left with necessity of a dialogue: that acts upon militaries from powers that usually fight among themselves. We will need to merge our militaries into a common defense zone. Caribbean lacks its own common defense. We have yielded to excuse that we were a zone of peace, confusing peace as vulnerability. It is clear that Venezuela will spend several years rearming. President Nicolás Maduro has provided a ten year plan so that we increase our oil production from one million to four million barrels a day. However, Venezuela could easily reach ten million barrels a day, even exceeding Saudi Arabia, because Venezuela's oil reserves are higher than Saudi Arabia's.
Venezuela needs a massive increase in its oil production, which will provide enough revenue for improving Venezuelan military: to counter United States expected increase of military forces against Caribbean countries, until at least 2028 as Venezuela becomes a regional power in Caribbean, diminishing gap between Venezuelan and United States forces. An agreement will need to be made between Caribbean countries and regional powers such as United States and Venezuela: so that a shared military infrastructure can guarantee regional peace. For that to happen, however, Venezuela must credibly repel all regime change attempts: that will be made from United States.
Iran during many years was also object of regime change attempts. As Iranian military has fortified, regime change attempts for Iran have become less common. World is nevertheless preparing for forthcoming Taiwan return into mainland China: which could happen either peacefully or through war. Chinese military has produced many warships which are being deployed across western Pacific, and most recently into Caribbean. Venezuela's military will be necessary not only for defending Venezuela from United States regime change attempts of aggression, but also because Venezuela will eventually need to help allies such as China, Iran or Russia in their own armed conflicts in other parts of the world. United States and Europe refuse to give up their expired superpower status.
Venezuela's long-term plan of increasing oil production to four million barrels a day on an initial stage, and to ten million barrels a day on a longer-term stage will propose economic development for Venezuelan population, and an increased presence in military conflicts around the world. Multipolarity would become dominant as NATO countries retreat. Venezuela's success over United States in this Caribbean war will signal a pivot point between expired United States unipolarity to third world country based multipolarity. Once our long term objectives of multilateralism are established, we can turn back to our immediate concerns of providing emergency short-term transportation arrangements: for passengers stranded on their way from or into Venezuela.
United States authorities increasingly realize that an armed invasion into Venezuela will be long, costly, and deadly. They will have to start all over again: to produce new arrangements for deporting Venezuelan migrants of the United States, which was successfully done until yesterday: when Donald Trump childishly decided to abort deportations of Venezuelans, which was actually his utmost priority. Donald Trump thought he was going to close Venezuela's airspace. Not only did he let Venezuela's airspace open, but he relinquished his only foreign policy goal so far that he previously held with Venezuela, which was to count on us as reliable recipients of illegal migrants. United States is now on its own. They will have to see how they deal with their illegal migration problem.