The Argentine government announced on Tuesday that it began diplomatic actions against the Venezuelan government for having prohibited the use of Venezuelan airspace to Argentine aircraft.
The spokesperson for the Casa Rosada, Manuel Adorni, assured that the government of President Nicolás Maduro decided to prohibit the use of its airspace by Argentine aircraft as retaliation.
In January, Argentina approved the request of the United States justice system to confiscate a plane owned by the Venezuelan State, which was held in its territory for months, for allegedly having violated “sanctions and export laws” and maintaining alleged links with terrorism. .
“Argentina is not going to allow itself to be extorted by the friends of terrorism,” Adorni said Tuesday at a press conference in which he referred to Maduro as a “dictator.”
The Venezuelan government has not commented, but weeks ago it warned that it would implement legal, diplomatic and political measures to safeguard the rights that assist it as a sovereign country in the defense of its patrimonial assets.
The Boeing 747, acronym YV3531, which was operated by the Venezuelan company Emtrasur, a subsidiary of the state-owned Conviasa, was previously owned by the also sanctioned Iranian airline Mahan Air, which the US associates with the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran. .
The plane, which had remained in Argentina since its arrest in June 2022, was transported to an airport in the state of Florida, in the United States, last month. At that time, the Venezuelan government accused Washington and Buenos Aires of stealing it and violating the rules that regulate civil aeronautics.
In addition, the Maduro government, which showed images showing the plane disabled at an airport, blamed the United States for committing “acts of vandalism” for dismantling the plane.
“A crime was committed against a Conviasa Emtrasur plane that was hijacked, they took away the colors of the flag, erased the name of Luisa Caceres de Arismendi and then chopped it into pieces. That is the hatred they have for revolutionary and Bolivarian Venezuela. It is outrageous! It is a crime against a plane that belonged to the entire Venezuelan people,” Maduro wrote on the social network X.
In 2022, the Venezuelan government specified that the cargo plane, which was transporting auto parts, was on the itinerary between the Ezeiza International Airport Argentina-Montevideo-Caracas, to make a technical supply stopover and denounced that the Uruguayan aeronautical authority revoked the permit of overflight while in the air, so he was forced to return to the Ezeiza airport in Buenos Aires.
Its crew, made up of 14 Venezuelans and 5 Iranians, were momentarily detained, subjected to an investigation and later released.
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