Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Skivoni.
Venezuela is now responding after President Trump said Saturday that pilots should consider the airspace over and near that country closed.
As Julia Carnero reports,
Venezuelan officials are calling the Trump statement a colonialist threat against their sovereignty.
Venezuela's foreign ministry called Trump's comments, quote,
another extravagant, illegal, and unjustified aggression against the Venezuelan people.
and said that it was unilaterally suspending all flights deporting Venezuelan migrants.
The Federal Aviation Administration had recently warned airlines of potentially hazardous situation when flying over the country,
leading companies to suspend flights and Venezuela to revoke operating rights for six major airlines.
As the US increases military pressure on the country,
President Trump said Thursday that it could begin targeting alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers on land very soon.
For NPR News, I'm Julie Cajneiro.
The U.S.
military family and friends last night honored U.S.
Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom,
the 20-year-old soldier who died in an ambush while patrolling the streets of Washington, D.C.
At a vigil at her former high school in Webster County,
West Virginia, school principal Greg Burleson remembered Beckstrom.
She carried herself with quiet strength.
A contagious smile and a positive energy that lifted people around her.