Donald Trump declared Venezuela\u2019s airspace \u2018closed\u2019 on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Venezuela has accused Washington of a \u201ccolonial threat\u201d against its sovereignty after US President Donald Trump said he was shutting down the country\u2019s airspace.<\/p>\n
The Latin American nation is on high alert after United States attacks on boats nearby and a major military deployment in the Caribbean that includes the world\u2019s largest aircraft carrier.<\/p>\n
Trump says he is fighting drug trafficking.<\/p>\n
But is that the real reason?<\/p>\n
Presenter:<\/strong> Bernard Smith<\/p>\n Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n Mark Pfeifle \u2013 US Republican strategist and a former White House deputy national security adviser<\/p>\n Paul Dobson \u2013 Independent journalist and political analyst in Venezuela<\/p>\n Christopher Sabatini \u2013 Senior research fellow for Latin America at Chatham House<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Donald Trump declared Venezuela\u2019s airspace \u2018closed\u2019 on Saturday. Venezuela has accused Washington of a \u201ccolonial threat\u201d against its sovereignty after US President Donald Trump said he was shutting down the country\u2019s airspace. The Latin American nation is on high alert after United States attacks on boats nearby and a major military deployment in the Caribbean … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}