The first direct commercial flight between the United States and Venezuela in seven years landed Thursday afternoon at Simon Bolivar Airport in Maiquetia, near Caracas, coming from Miami, a new step in the normalization of relations between the two countries following the capture of Nicolas Maduro in January.
The first direct commercial flight between the United States and Venezuela in seven years landed Thursday afternoon at Simon Bolivar Airport in Maiquetia, near Caracas, coming from Miami, a new step in the normalization of relations between the two countries after the capture of Nicolas Maduro in January. Businessmen, representatives of the U.S. government, as well as a swarm of journalists, were on board this Envoy Air flight 3599, a subsidiary of American Airlines, which landed at 1:15 PM local time (5:15 PM GMT), an AFP journalist observed.
