Venezuela says US intelligence plane violated airspace

[Judi Lynn]

Venezuela says US intelligence plane violated airspace
Nov 8, 4:49 PM EST
By RICARDO NUNES
Associated Press

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuela claims a U.S. Coast Guard plane it describes as an intelligence aircraft violated the South American country's airspace.

Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino said Sunday the Dash-8 aircraft flew out of Curacao, a Dutch island not far off Venezuela's Caribbean coast. He said that during a 30-minute period the plane twice entered Venezuelan airspace over the tiny archipelago of Los Monjes on Friday while performing what appeared to be a reconnaissance mission in the Gulf of Venezuela, which is also bounded by Colombia. In comments on the state channel Telesur, Padrino said other U.S. reconnaissance and military transport aircraft had flown close to Venezuela in recent days.

While he offered no evidence to back the claims, he said the timing of the apparent maneuvers, as the country prepares for key legislative elections next month, was suspicious, recalling other U.S. military exercises that allegedly preceded a brief coup in 2002 against then President Hugo Chavez.

"It's completely unusual that these types of aircraft, with all their electronic surveillance characteristics, to come near our area of influence," said Padrino, adding that the USS George Washington aircraft carrier would pass nearby Venezuela around the same time as the Dec. 6 vote.

More:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_VENEZUELA_US?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-11-08-15-48-07

LBN:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141254741

[Judi Lynn]

1. Venezuela says U.S. intelligence plane violated air space

Venezuela says U.S. intelligence plane violated air space
Sun Nov 8, 2015 2:25pm EST

CARACAS

Venezuela said a U.S. Coast Guard intelligence plane violated its airspace on Friday and that other planes with capacity to gather information were circulating close to the South American country.

"Forty-eight hours ago, an intelligence plane for the U.S. Coast Guard took off from the air base in Curacao," Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino said in a televised broadcast on Sunday.

"The most serious part is that this plane, a Dash-8 ... violated air space, our air space," he said, adding the aircraft was close the western Los Monjes archipelago on the Caribbean coast.

. . .

"This deserves our attention," Padrino said. "Taking into account the precedents that exist, especially in the year 2002," he said in reference to the U.S.-endorsed coup that briefly deposed late leftist leader Hugo Chavez.

More:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/08/us-venezuela-usa-idUSKCN0SX0T720151108#Wpyjs56Gc1sH3gJ6.99

[COLGATE4]

2. Minister Padrino should advise his countrymen that

wearing a tinfoil hat set at exactly 37 degrees will foil Yankee electronic surveillance. Assuming of course that tinfoil is available.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Venezuela claims US spy plane violated its airspace

Venezuela claims US spy plane violated its airspace
By AFP 16 mins ago.

Venezuela claimed Sunday that a US Coast Guard intelligence plane violated its airspace, an allegation promptly denied by the American military branch.

The Dash 8 plane took off Friday from the Hato Rey base on the Caribbean island of Curacao and entered Venezuelan airspace close to the western Los Monjes archipelago on the Caribbean coast, Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino said in a televised address.

"The most serious part is that this aircraft violated airspace, our airspace," he said, adding that the plane flew in a "circular search pattern" by the Gulf of Venezuela.

. . .
Padrino claimed that no US authorities "reported that presence" to the control tower at Simon Bolivar International Airport, "as required by international aviation law."

Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/venezuela-claims-us-spy-plane-violated-its-airspace/article/448798#ixzz3qweos7sl

[Marksman_91]

4. Maduro and co. trying to detract attention from the horrible state the country's in with more BS

Their support is in shambles and know they're gonna lose big on the December 6th elections. They're doing everything they can now to distract people from the sad state of affairs in the country.

[GGJohn]

5. True to form,

Comrade Maduro can't provide any proof, but we're just supposed to take his word?

LOL, yeah, ummmmmm, NO.
I don't for one second believe one word coming out of Comrade Maduro's pie hole.

[Judi Lynn]

6. US Coast Guard’s Reconnaissance Plane Violates Venezuelan Airspace

US Coast Guard’s Reconnaissance Plane Violates Venezuelan Airspace
02:17 09.11.2015(updated 02:40 09.11.2015)

Venezuela’s Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino said that US Coast Guard's reconnaissance plane trespassed into the Venezuelan airspace.

MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) — US Coast Guard's reconnaissance plane trespassed into the Venezuelan airspace on Friday, Venezuela’s Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino said late Sunday.

"Forty-eight hours ago an intelligence aircraft of the US Coast Guard, based at the Hato Navy air station in the Curacao island, crossed into our air space," the national AVN news agency quoted Padrino as saying.

The minister said the trespassing plane was a Dash-8. He added it was unusual for such an aircraft with its electronic surveillance equipment to come close to Venezuela’s "area of influence."

Relations between Venezuela and the United States have been strained since the late 1990s. Most recently, Washington imposed sanctions on Venezuela’s several senior officials.

http://sptnkne.ws/abDx

(Short article, no more at link.)

[Marksman_91]

7. Again, this article is only going by what the Padrino Lopez is claiming

What exactly are you trying to prove by using multiple articles which themselves use the same unproven source? You look like a paid Ven government shill trying to distract readers from the whopping that the Chavista government will be getting on the Dec. 6 elections