The United States has suspended all flights to Venezuela

The United States suspended all of its commercial and cargo flights to Venezuela yesterday, considering that turmoil and political tension in the South American nation pose a risk.

With the announcement of the Department of Homeland Security, a small number of flights between the two countries were affected, as US airlines no longer serve Venezuela. This decision reflects growing tensions between the Venezuelan government and the United States, which are leading a campaign to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro.

The conditions in Venezuela "threaten the safety of pbadengers, planes and the crew," the department said. He indicated that the measure would be maintained indefinitely.

American Airlines suspended flights in mid-March after union officials told pilots not to travel to Venezuela for security reasons. Other airlines also stopped serving the South American nation several years ago due to the deterioration of the economy.

Some Venezuelan airlines operated commercial flights to and from Miami, although these routes had already been affected by the turmoil.

The parliament

Without his vice-president and 13 of his deputies undergoing judicial proceedings, the National Assembly of Venezuela resumed yesterday after the security forces blocked access, which prevented the holding of the session.

In the middle of a tense atmosphere due to the presence of the National Guard, nearly ninety members of the opposition Congress gathered in one of the hemicycle of the legislative palace to discuss the case of their accused colleagues.

The absence of Vice President Edgar Zambrano, arrested last week by members of the political police, as well as thirteen other opposition MPs to whom the ruling Constituent Assembly has waived parliamentary immunity and authorized prosecution , created a vacuum and long among some colleagues, as noted AP during the session.

Most of the deputies involved in the process chose to go into hiding – among them Carlos Paparoni -, while four others fled to the residences of the ambbadadors of Argentina, Italy and Italy. Mexico.

The announcement of the presence of legislator Franco Casella at the Mexican diplomatic headquarters caused a sensation on Wednesday because the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador had insisted that he not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, although he recently questioned the procedures initiated by the authorities. Venezuelan against members of the opposition.

The opposition leader and Congress President, Juan Guaidó, was alone at the leaders' table, as the Zambrano chair was empty, as was the post of the second vice-president, Stalin González, also absent from the debate. .

"Jumping into the void is not an option," Guaidó said in a speech at the session in which he urged his colleagues to cope with judicial proceedings and arrests of deputies, actions that, in his view, respond to "persecution". from the government of Nicolás Maduro because "they are desperate".

When condemning the seizure of the legislative palace made Tuesday by the authorities, Mr. Guaidó baderted that "they made the political mistake of giving themselves control of a power by occupying militarily legislative spaces ".

The building was built a few hours after the entry of about fifteen members of the Bolivian National Intelligence Service (Sebin), the regime's political police, looking for an explosive device, said Roberto Campos, member of the Secretariat of the National Assembly.