A plane from the United States carrying 266 Venezuelan migrants landed in Venezuela on Wednesday, according to Foreign Minister Yvan Gil speaking to Reuters.
The flight — an Eastern Airlines charter from Phoenix — was cleared to land at Maiquetía International Airport near Caracas after approval from Venezuela’s transportation ministry, the ministry said Tuesday in a statement reported by Reuters.
The resumption comes after a brief suspension of flights triggered when President Donald Trump wrote on social media that Venezuelan airspace should be considered “closed in its entirety,” a message that Caracas interpreted as a hostile move, according to reporting from CBS News.
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