Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (APP) – The Trump administration plans to occupy another aircraft belonging to the Venezuelan president. Nicolas Maduro The government, which is currently in the Dominican Republic.
Secretary Foreign Marco Rubio According to an American official obtained by the Associated Press and a document by the State Department, the Center for Domingo plans to announce the occupation on Thursday.
To perform this occupation, Rubio requests more than $ 230,000 in storage and rehabilitation fees to sign a request to sign off the freezing exemption of foreign aid. It also requires the approval of the Justice Department.
The request for the waiver, which was submitted earlier last week, has been approved and Rubio is expected to announce that the State Department has publicly stated as a “law enforcement”. What is
The aircraft is a Dasmolt Falcon 200, which has been used by Maduro and top assistants, including its vice president and defense minister, including the administration to travel to the world, including Greece, Turkey, Russia and Cuba, the administration says. That is a violation of US sanctions. On the document
The plane occupied only a week after President Donald Trump’s special missions, Richard Greenwell, just a week after, Visited Caracas And meeting Maduro to discuss the return of Venezuela citizens who illegally entered the United States. Greenwell returned with six Americans who were detained in Venezuela.
The United States seized another plane of Dominican Republic’s Maduro In September 2024.
At the moment, the Department of Justice said that in the late 2022 and early 2023, the use of Maduro Associates used a Caribbean-based Shell Company to hide its involvement in the purchase of aircraft-a Dasalt Falcon 900x worth 13 million The dollar is from a company in Florida.
In a development of Rubio’s first stop on a Central American visit, the Panama, the Foreign Department announced Thursday that the Panamians had agreed to allow US warships to transfer the Panama Canal free.
Those fees were a complaint about President Donald Trump’s canal, which he said, unless he strictly restricts Chinese influence in the area.
The department said in a post on X, “US government ships can now move to the Panama Canal without any compensation, which can save the US government millions of dollars a year.”
Was a contract in principle to leave fees When Rubio visited Panama n Sunday, but it was not finalized.
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