Aerolíneas Argentinas planes bound for Miami and New York will not be able to pass over Venezuela – 2024-03-15 02:24:12

The diplomatic tension between Venezuela and Argentina has a new chapter. In the last few hours, different Argentine media reported that by order of Nicolás Maduro, the flights of Aerolíneas Argentina (state airline) will not be able to fly over Venezuelan territory when it develops its route to Punta de Cana, Dominican Republic, and the American cities of Miami. and New York.

Information from the web portal, TN, detailed that the problem has been going on for several weeks and the Argentine Foreign Ministry had already made the formal complaint to the Venezuelan embassy in Buenos Aires, by sending two complaint notes. Furthermore, the ambassador of the Caribbean country, Stella Lugo, would have already taken note of the matter, however, so far everything has been in vain.

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Possible causes of the conflict

The aforementioned media outlet assured that the government of Javier Milei believes that everything is a vindictive measure in light of the past detention at the Ezeiza international airport of Emtrasur Cargo’s Boeing, which after months of discussion was handed over. to the United States, where the ship was claimed for being subject to the scheme of sanctions and embargoes against Venezuela and Iran.

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It should be noted that the episode was carried out by a Boeing 747-300 freighter, detained in June 2022 at the request of the United States justice system, which had been sold by the Iranian company Maham Air to Emtrasur, of Venezuela, and was marked by the Je Biden administration for alleged use for international terrorist activities.

Argentina is seriously considering going to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), an organization that is part of the United Nations, to make the pertinent claim and be able to fly over Venezuela again and thus avoid the diversion over Guyana.

Currently, there are four Aerolíneas Argentinas flights weekly to the Dominican Republic, between nine and ten to Miami and up to three to New York. Since the first fights between both nations during Mauricio Macri’s administration, there are no direct flights with any airline between Buenos Aires and Caracas.