Reciprocity: Venezuela reiterates ban on flying over Argentina until it compensates for damage to EMTRASUR

Published at: 12/03/2024 02:30 PM

The Minister of Popular Power for Foreign Affairs, Yván Gil, responded this Tuesday to Argentina's presidential spokesman, Manuel Adorni, to his position for the ban on overflights in Venezuelan airspace, which will remain in force until they compensate for damages to the Southern Air Freight Transport Company (EMTRASUR).

Through his account on the social network X, the Venezuelan Foreign Minister stated that “the neo-Nazi government of Argentina is not only submissive and obedient to its imperial master, but also has a 'table face' spokesperson: Mr. Manuel Adorni pretends to ignore the consequences of his acts of piracy and theft against Venezuela, which were repeatedly warned before the criminal act committed against EMTRASUR”.

In this regard, he stressed that, in the exercise of full sovereignty in its airspace, Venezuela “reiterates that no aircraft, coming from or going to Argentina, can fly over our territory, until our company is duly compensated for the damage caused, after the illegal actions carried out, only in order to please its guardians in the north.”

In this context, the Deputy Minister of Anti-Blockade Policies, William Castillo, indicated that Javier Milei's presidential spokesman, “faithful to the counterfeiting style of his boss, is blatantly lying” about the illegal act in which the Argentine government decided to hand over the EMTRASUR plane to the United States (USA).

He pointed out that Argentina seeks to “win Biden's applause”, recalling that the Venezuelan company's plane, which cost 80 million dollars, “was destroyed by the gringos without any authority being responsible for it.”

Castillo reports that the Milei government was the one who broke the rules of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), “allowing the takeoff of a plane that violated air safety regulations on the continent on its way, lying to air traffic controllers about the route” and “apparently they used one of the “drug routes” to take the plane from Ezeiza to Miami.

“Milei, you may be intimidating Argentinian society. But with Venezuela that doesn't work. Now you're banking on the response of a sovereign government,” emphasized the deputy minister.

On the other hand, the first vice-president of the National Assembly, Pedro Infante, stressed that Argentina violated “all international treaties and agreements, to move the tail of its imperial owners (...) Does Venezuela exercise sovereignty and give a proportional response and are they going to come out crying?” , he questioned.

This Tuesday, the spokesman for the Casa Rosada, headquarters of the Executive of the southern nation, said that Argentina would resort to international bodies to denounce this prohibition exercised by Venezuela, which the Bolivarian Government takes as a measure of reciprocity.

Mazo News Team