Furor over controversy surrounding Venezuelan President’s right to travel over US airspace

MIAMI, CMC – Bolivian President Evo Morales has called for an emergency meeting of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States in the wake of a furor over the United States’ denial then reversal of permission for Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to travel over US airspace in the Caribbean.
Calixto Ortega, the highest-ranking Venezuelan diplomat in the United States, said here on Friday the US State Department had denied Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro the right to travel through US airspace in Puerto Rico on his way to China before reversing the decision.
Ortega told reporters that US authorities had initially denied Maduro’s aircraft the right to cross Puerto Rican airspace, according to the Miami Herald.