US President Donald Trump said he made a phone call with his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro, who accuses Washington of using the fight against drug trafficking as a pretext to deploy large military forces in the Caribbean Sea with the aim of overthrowing him.
Trump said about the conversation, which was first reported by the New York Times: "I can’t tell if it went good or bad, it was a phone call"

Closing Venezuela’s airspace

He said Colombian President Gustavo Petro said that a foreign president does not have the right to announce the closure of another country’s airspace, following positions made by the American President Donald Trump on Venezuela.
The US President announced on Saturday that Venezuela’s airspace "Completely closed"While his government is intensifying pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by deploying its forces on a large scale in the Caribbean region.

Caracas condemned Trump’s announcement, describing it as…"Colonial threat" It affects the country’s sovereignty.
The Colombian president asked, without mentioning Trump’s name "I would like to know under what rule of international law can a head of state close the airspace of another state?".

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